-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 John P Verel wrote:
>su - starts a login shell for root. Info page says: > >su - Make the shell a login shell. This means the following. Unset all > environment variables except `TERM', `HOME', and `SHELL' (which > are set as described above), and `USER' and `LOGNAME' (which are > set, even for the super-user, as described above), and set `PATH' > to a compiled-in default value. Change to USER's home directory. > Prepend `-' to the shell's name, intended to make it read its > login startup file(s) > >So, this does two things I don't want: >Change to ~/root >Uses root .bash_history. I want to use the john's history I see, sorry. I misunderstood what you meant by 'pick up the user's history'. I see that you meant the invoking user. And I'd forgotten that 'su -' changes the working dir. Shutting up. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp - -- http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/pale_blue_dot.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA/AwUBPE99Er9BpdPKTBGtEQLv7gCgkahgaGFwQWuZ2scy1Y0lEHNGOOoAn1q0 +aagKGT1ZGhy6hnoWi56Qi6n =cQDJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
