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From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
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Subject: Re: TERM=cons25 in roots' .profile?!?
To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 11:04:19 -0500 (CDT)
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In-Reply-To: <199610181557.BAA13796@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Oct 19, 96 01:57:01 am
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> >Anyone have ideas about a more general fix than throwing an explicit
> >TERM=xxxx in .profile?
> 
> Don't login as root, use su :-).

THAT should be in /root/.profile.

> /.profile shouldn't be a (sym)link to /root/.profile.  It shouldn't
> set HOME to /root.  Then you can just edit /.profile to suit the boot
> environment.

That would be pretty reasonable, I think.

... JG