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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!chi-news.cic.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!news.dfn.de!zeus.rbi.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de!grapool30.rz.uni-frankfurt.de!orakel!avg From: avg@orakel.rz.uni-frankfurt.de (Anton von Gotstedter) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Manual pages sometimes miss information.... Date: 6 Nov 1995 12:22:06 GMT Organization: J. W. Goethe-Universitaet Frankfurt/Main Lines: 38 Message-ID: <47kule$dh0@grapool30.rz.uni-frankfurt.de> References: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951022024358.1055A-100000@ntworker.gscorp.com> <Pine.BSF.3.91.951022033320.1233A-100000@ntworker.gscorp.com> <46hb1r$dq3@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: orakel.rz.uni-frankfurt.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote: > 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. ;-)