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Date:      Wed, 10 Jan 2001 11:28:28 -0600 (CST)
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: su su 
Message-ID:  <14940.39868.769882.575793@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <85077213@toto.iv>

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tony <tony@tntpro.com> types:
> I just do su -
> > What I usually do, is something like this:
> >
> > in ~/.bash_profile:
> >
> > source ~/.bashrc
> >
> > then put all of my PS1 and 2 nonsense in my .bashrc along with all of the
> > other noise
> > that is associated with that. :)
> >

The problem with "su -" is that you get csh, not bash.

Personally, I have an alias for su: "PS1='host# ' su -m". Any other
environment variables that you want set or changed can be set in the
same alias.

	<mike
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