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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Manual pages sometimes miss information....
Date: 24 Oct 1995 01:12:43 +0100
Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden.
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Philipp Ott <philipp@gscorp.com> wrote:
>
>Grummel, here's another small trap which differs from other Linux
>flavours: the csh prompt (from su) didn't tell me that I was still root.
>Hmpf.
You are free to put whatever you want into root's .cshrc file, and it
will be executed even for su(8).
My ~root/.cshrc ends up in:
...
if ($?prompt) then
set prompt="`hostname -s ` # "
endif
set path = ( /sbin /usr/sbin /bin /usr/bin /usr/local/bin /usr/X11R6/bin )
Btw., having /usr/sbin in the path might even be useful for normal
users:
HIER(7) UNIX Reference Manual HIER(7)
NAME
hier - layout of filesystems
...
/usr/ contains the majority of user utilities and applications
...
sbin/ system daemons & system utilities (executed by users)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
--
cheers, J"org
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)