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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!helena.MT.net!nate From: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: SU's or TCSH's behavior (bug?) Date: 10 Jan 1996 20:48:45 GMT Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4d18nd$2i6@helena.MT.net> References: <4cu8fd$54l@news.bu.edu> Reply-To: "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: trout.sri.mt.net In article <4cu8fd$54l@news.bu.edu>, Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com> wrote: >$user is not set by `su'-command. Tcsh does not change a prompt to root >(or whatever the new user is), `mail' attempts to read the original user's >mailbox, while `elm' works as I'd expect... Try: 'su -' next time. This causes it to use a brand-new environment. Nate -- nate@sneezy.sri.com | Research Engineer, SRI Intl. - Montana Operations nate@trout.sri.MT.net | Loving life in God's country, the great state of work #: (406) 449-7662 | Montana. home #: (406) 443-7063 | A fly pole and a 4x4 Chevy truck = Heaven on Earth