On Tuesday 02 March 2010 08:33:07 Mick wrote: > On Monday 01 March 2010 10:11:18 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Mon, 1 Mar 2010 11:08:22 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > We just log the fact of running sudo. The admins are trusted to not > > > cock things up, and if they do, to not try and hide it. The philosophy > > > is simple - if we feel we can't trust you, we would not have hired you. > > > > That is sensible, if not good for your BOFH rating :) > > > > > Editing root's history after the fact to hide your tracks is considered > > > a heinous crime of unimaginable proportions. Anyone caught doing it is > > > sentenced to buy cake for the entire technical team. That's about 100 > > > people. And when I saw cake I don't mean a teeny weeny jam tart each, I > > > mean cake - chocolate filled croissants, black forest and my personal > > > favourite: 4 inch high carrot cake. > > > > I take that back :) > > Coming back to the OP, on a brand new installation, while on the console > and logged in as root user, I also see ESC all over the man pages. I do > not have this problem on older boxen, nor do I remember noticing it in the > past. What is causing it and what is the fix?
Compare the environment between root and a non-root user when running a login shell. The answer should be self-evident when you have the correct data in front of you to compare -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
