Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 18:47:23 -0500 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> To: "FreeBSD Questions !!!!" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: minor question .... Message-ID: <5414D78B.5030800@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <5414BDFA.2040905@dreamchaser.org> References: <5414AF66.80606@hiwaay.net> <5414BDFA.2040905@dreamchaser.org>
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Thanks, I have su aliased to 'su -', which is synonimous w/ 'su -l' ....
The same thing happens w/ regular user, I just don't use that as often ....
On 09/13/14 16:58, Gary Aitken wrote:
> On 09/13/14 14:56, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>>
>> .... I usually have long login sessions (weeks, maybe months), 99% of
>> which are spent in rxvt shells, either on this machine or logged into
>> other boxen on my LAN. I login as regular user. On 1 desktop, I open
>> an rxvt session, su to root, then (try to) duplicate that shell using
>> the following CLI commands:
>>
>>
>> [root@kabini1, /etc, 3:45:35pm] 325 % ( rxvt -sl 5000 -fn
>> -*-lucidatypewriter-bold-r-normal-sans-17-*-100-100-*-100-*-* & )
>> rxvt: No match. [root@kabini1, /etc, 3:45:42pm] 326 % which rxvt
>> /usr/local/bin/rxvt [root@kabini1, /etc, 3:45:49pm] 327 % (
>> /usr/local/bin/rxvt -sl 5000 -fn
>> -*-lucidatypewriter-bold-r-normal-sans-17-*-100-100-*-100-*-* & )
>> /usr/local/bin/rxvt: No match. [root@kabini1, /etc, 3:53:56pm] 328 %
>>
>> also tried:
>>
>> [root@kabini1, /etc, 3:54:49pm] 329 % ( rxvt & ) [root@kabini1,
>> /etc, 3:55:21pm] 330 % No protocol specified rxvt: can't open display
>> :0
>>
>> [root@kabini1, /etc, 3:55:23pm] 330 %
>>
>>
>> This worked AOK under FC14, apropos of little, but doesn't work under
>> FBSD 9.3 .... Any clues as to why not ? It save me a bunch of
>> clicking the rxvt icon, clicking the maximize button on the new
>> window, & su-ing to root (3 steps instead of 1, grrrrr ....) ....
>> obviously not show stopping, but irritating .... Same problem as
>> regular user .... Any clues appreciated ....
> As I recall, I had a similar problem once.
> Not sure this will do it but try "su -l"
>
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