try man su
I think a modifier to like -l"L" would make difference.
"L"
- Original Message -
From: "Andy Holyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 10:06 AM
Subject: Odd one: my root account disappears in
On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 03:06:52PM +0100, Andy Holyer wrote:
> I ssh into my server as myself, and then su to root. At which point
> something odd happens:
>
> a) the output of some shell commands seems to be redirected somewhere
> other then my xterm;
> b) when I try to run emacs or vi, I get:
Here's a really odd one.
I ssh into my server as myself, and then su to root. At which point
something odd happens:
a) the output of some shell commands seems to be redirected somewhere
other then my xterm;
b) when I try to run emacs or vi, I get: "emacs: standard input is not
a tty"
This does
