> this is a bad idea, because if he logs in from another machine and does a
> 'su -' as root, his DISPLAY env variable will be wrong.
>

True.  This would only work well in the case where it's a single machine at
home, and the user and root were always at the console.  Network logins
would break it.  Gordon's suggestion earlier about making an alias for the
export command is the better (safer) answer then.

Somebody finds a problem with massmail.pl and you take it out on me, eh
Chas?  ;-)

Eric Cifreo
Austin, TX


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