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From: Jez Hancock <jez.hancock@munk.nu>
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On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 07:41:53PM +0200, Eric Yellin wrote:
> When I "su -m" and login as root, all I get in the prompt is a % sign. My
> normal user shell is tcsh and the prompt looks like this:
> [eric@www4]/home/eric(29): but this is not kept when I su -m.
> How can I change this?

Have you tried copying ~eric/.cshrc to ~root/.cshrc?

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