From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 13 12:52:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA28746 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 12:52:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sussie.datadesign.se (ns.datadesign.se [194.23.109.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA28741 for ; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 12:52:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kaj@interbizz.se) Received: from localhost (sussie.datadesign.se [194.23.109.130]) by sussie.datadesign.se (8.8.5/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA08133; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 21:51:31 +0200 (MET DST) To: khetan@iafrica.com, khetan@chain.freebsd.os.org.za Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: kaj@interbizz.se Subject: Re: su problem with freebsd 2.2.7-stable From: Rasmus Kaj In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 13 Aug 1998 20:43:20 +0200 (SAT)" References: X-Mailer: Mew version 1.92.4 on XEmacs 20.4 (Emerald) X-URL: http://www.e.kth.se/~kaj/ X-Phone: +46 (0)8 - 692 35 09 / +46 (0)70 640 49 14 X-Attribution: Kaj X-Face: M9cR~WYav<"fu%MaslX0`43PAYY?uIsM8[#E(0\Xuy9rj>4gE\h3jm.7DD?]R8*^7T\o&vT U@[53Dwkuup4[0@gw#~kyu>`unH?kVj9CJa02(h>Ki\+i=%rn%sDf^KC.!?IHkKjMAbkd\jgmphp^' d|Q;OeXEAhq?ybGqOs1CHb6TJT42'C`Krnk61//AOfXtNjj/t'`5>Vw0QX!dKfOL$.f+S"LIuwR<;I Z0Qnnx(F^F]o@*V%TUtEV'1Z[TkOl^FFV9Z~A[b19%}uP*,huCU Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <19980813215130D.kaj@interbizz.se> Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 21:51:30 +0200 X-Dispatcher: imput version 971024 Lines: 17 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "KG" == Khetan Gajjar writes: KG> Every time I run su (and I have normally never had a problem), KG> the process just starts to grow, and around roughly 10Mb's of KG> resident memory, seg faults. I've rebuilt su from the source KG> tree, but it appears that the command is fine. A guess: This sounds to me like you have something that creates a new shell in the shell startup files in /root (or whereever the account you su to lives), and thus run an infinite recurse. // Rasmus -- kaj@cityonline.se --------------- Rasmus Kaj - http://www.e.kth.se/~kaj/ \ CityOnLine IB Production AB - http://www.CityOnLine.se/ \---------------------------- Pro is to con as progress is to Congress To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message