Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 19:24:33 +0100 From: Remko Lodder <remko@elvandar.org> To: Eric Yellin <eric@migvan.co.il> Cc: freeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: problem with su Message-ID: <405C8C61.8070208@elvandar.org> In-Reply-To: <011b01c40ea2$a231ccc0$0851db3e@net.migvan.co.il> References: <011b01c40ea2$a231ccc0$0851db3e@net.migvan.co.il>
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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? > Thanks, > Eric > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Hi Eric, When you use `su -` you say to the su program, "Let me own the root profile and give it's settings to me, dropping my own settings". use `su` if you want to say using your current settings. Cheers
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