ubiquitous1980 wrote: > If I have logged in through sudo such as $ sudo su, when I then use man > pages, they are covered in "ESC". This does not occur when using normal > user accounts or the root account through su. Wondering what is going > on. Thanks.
Q: Have you tried "... su -" (the dash is important since it will read the environment for root login otherwise the environment will be the same as for current user). http://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2006/07/msg00059.html Best regards Peter K