Changing Default Editor in profile
under my home directory for root under .profile I added the line: EDITOR=pico;export EDITOR where no such line existed for EDITOR before; this line exists in my personal account that I use and my default for external launched editors is now pico such that I can edit crontab stuff easily. However, when I ssh in and then su, I try to run crontab only to find it is still booting into 'vi' by default. Any ideas how I can get this loaded? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Changing Default Editor in profile
--- Huy Ton That [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: under my home directory for root under .profile I added the line: EDITOR=pico;export EDITOR where no such line existed for EDITOR before; this line exists in my personal account that I use and my default for external launched editors is now pico such that I can edit crontab stuff easily. However, when I ssh in and then su, I try to run crontab only to find it is still booting into 'vi' by default. Any ideas how I can get this loaded? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] yeah, I'm not sure what the switch is for su I think its -w check man, but you have to load your profile for root which is a switch to su. by default it uses the profile of the user running su. the switch loads the profile for the user your su'ing to. -brian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Changing Default Editor in profile
Hi, On 9/8/06, Huy Ton That [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: under my home directory for root under .profile I added the line: EDITOR=pico;export EDITOR where no such line existed for EDITOR before; this line exists in my personal account that I use and my default for external launched editors is now pico such that I can edit crontab stuff easily. However, when I ssh in and then su, I try to run crontab only to find it is still booting into 'vi' by default. Any ideas how I can get this loaded? You have to use su -, if you want load your root's environnement. su(1) for more explications. HTH ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Regards. -- There's this old saying: Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed him for life. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Changing Default Editor in profile
Thank you sirs!!! That did the trick! On 9/8/06, Dominique Goncalves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On 9/8/06, Huy Ton That [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: under my home directory for root under .profile I added the line: EDITOR=pico;export EDITOR where no such line existed for EDITOR before; this line exists in my personal account that I use and my default for external launched editors is now pico such that I can edit crontab stuff easily. However, when I ssh in and then su, I try to run crontab only to find it is still booting into 'vi' by default. Any ideas how I can get this loaded? You have to use su -, if you want load your root's environnement. su(1) for more explications. HTH ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Regards. -- There's this old saying: Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed him for life. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Changing Default Editor in profile
Huy Ton That wrote: under my home directory for root under .profile I added the line: EDITOR=pico;export EDITOR where no such line existed for EDITOR before; this line exists in my personal account that I use and my default for external launched editors is now pico such that I can edit crontab stuff easily. However, when I ssh in and then su, I try to run crontab only to find it is still booting into 'vi' by default. Any ideas how I can get this loaded? Try using: su -m instead. -- Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Give a man a fire, he is warm for a night. Set a man on fire and he is warm for the rest of his life. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
~/.profile and tcsh (was: Changing Default Editor in profile)
under my home directory for root under .profile I added the line: EDITOR=pico;export EDITOR You have to use su -, if you want load your root's environnement. su(1) for more explications. Thank you sirs!!! That did the trick! Hmmm, interesting. I was under the impression that ~/.profile file is used by sh and not by tcsh. Indeed, I can't find it being mentioned in tcsh(1) manpage. Am I missing something? Pointers to TFM welcomed, of course :) Karol -- Karol Kwiatkowski freebsd at orchid dot homeunix dot org OpenPGP: http://www.orchid.homeunix.org/carlos/gpg/0x06E09309.asc signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Changing Default Editor in profile
Dominique Goncalves writes: Hi, On 9/8/06, Huy Ton That [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: under my home directory for root under .profile I added the line: EDITOR=pico;export EDITOR where no such line existed for EDITOR before; this line exists in my personal account that I use and my default for external launched editors is now pico such that I can edit crontab stuff easily. However, when I ssh in and then su, I try to run crontab only to find it is still booting into 'vi' by default. Any ideas how I can get this loaded? You have to use su -, if you want load your root's environnement. su(1) for more explications. That is the specific answer to your question, but here is an additional caution. You do not want to have the main root account set up with anything but the minimal stuff that will be available in single user mode with only the / partition mounted just in case you have trouble and need it. For it to be root it needs to have UID = 0 and best to have GID = 0. It doesn't need to be named root. So, I would suggest making your own separate root account - maybe named something like domr or domR or something else convenient and then give that account all the nice things like your favorite shell and editor, etc so you can use that as root when all the system is up and happy and leave the main root with /bin/sh as shell and /usr/bin/vi as editor, etc. I usually even put a copy of vi in /bin just for those occasions. Just a suggestion, jerry HTH ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Regards. -- There's this old saying: Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed him for life. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
