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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: SU -c switch Date: 5 Nov 1995 23:04:37 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 20 Message-ID: <47jcdl$msb@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <47fh68$8d@falstaf.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Robin Birch <robin@falstaf.demon.co.uk> wrote: >Many systems, my PDP-11 running 2bsd amongst others, allow me to do something >like su news -c "some command string". This then allows me to execute the >command string as news. > >I am running FreeBSD 2.0 and this doesn't appear to do this. I don't know why this ability has been removed some day. You can always do echo "some command string" | su news In FreeBSD 1.1.5.1, and in FreeBSD-current, su -c does work again. -- 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. ;-)