"John W Baxter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:p05200f04ba4807d632c4@[192.168.1.50]... > If you become root using su - and then su - mailman, what happens? > Output of > whoami > pwd > ls -lad ~
/usr/local/home/david $su - Password: [root@linux root]# su - mailman /usr/local/home/mailman $whoami mailman /usr/local/home/mailman $pwd /usr/local/home/mailman /usr/local/home/mailman $ls -lad ~ drwxr-xr-x 7 mailman users 4096 Jan 12 15:22 /usr/local/home/mailman > It looks as if the moral equivalent of that su sequence is failing, leaving > the process running as mailman but with /root as the current working > directory OR as the directory referred to as ~. Since mailman can't write > files into /root (on any sane system), bad things happen. I ended up switching the html converter to links ... which seems to be working well. No clue why lynks doesn't work. david ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ This message was sent to: archive@jab.org Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
