From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 13 14:27:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA20485 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 14:27:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from chain.freebsd.os.org.za (chain.freebsd.os.org.za [196.7.74.174]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA20444 for ; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 14:27:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from khetan@chain.freebsd.os.org.za) X-Disclaimer: Contents of this e-mail are the writer's opinion X-Disclaimer2: and may not be quoted, re-produced or forwarded X-Disclaimer3: (in part or whole) without the author's permission. Received: from localhost (khetan@localhost) by chain.freebsd.os.org.za (8.9.1+3.0W/8.9.1) with SMTP id XAA27324; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 23:27:21 +0200 (SAT) (envelope-from khetan@chain.freebsd.os.org.za) Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 23:27:20 +0200 (SAT) From: Khetan Gajjar X-Sender: khetan@chain Reply-To: Khetan Gajjar To: Rasmus Kaj cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: su problem with freebsd 2.2.7-stable In-Reply-To: <19980813215130D.kaj@interbizz.se> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Rasmus Kaj wrote: >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. I haven't changed anything in the shell startup files. That's the weird thing. It's just started yesterday, for no apparent reason. I can sudo bash, and that works, but I'd still prefer to su when I need to :-( --- Khetan Gajjar (!kg1779) * khetan@iafrica.com ; khetan@os.org.za http://www.os.org.za/~khetan * Talk/Finger khetan@chain.freebsd.os.org.za UUNET Internet Africa Support * FreeBSD enthusiast-www2.za.freebsd.org FreeBSD: Because rebooting is for adding new hardware To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message