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From: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au>
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Subject: Re: emacs installs a lot of 777 directories
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On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
 > On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:31:21 +0100, Eirik Øverby <ltning@anduin.net> wrote:
 > > On 16. mars. 2009, at 00.50, freebsd001@pc.jgr.de wrote:
 > >> Dear Giorgos,
 > >> thank you for coming back to the emacs issue. I deinstalled
 > >> emacs by means of pkg_delete -v -d, deleted by hand
 > >> /usr/local/share/emacs to make sure that nothing is left,
 > >> logged in as user "nutzer", and did su to root:
 > >>
 > >>> id
 > >> uid=1006(nutzer) gid=1000(user) groups=1000(user),0(wheel)
 > >>> su
 > >> Password:
 > >
 > > Try 'su -' instead of 'su'.
 > > There might be some environment issues; I've seen similar behavior
 > > when making that mistake myself.
 > 
 > This is correct.  `su -' should be preferred when installing stuff :)

Absolutely - but I can't find where it(7) actually says that?

cheers, Ian
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