Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:16:06 -0300 (ADT) From: Theo Bell <freebsd@cfdnet.me.tuns.ca> To: Ariel Burbaickij <Ariel.Burbaickij@mni.fh-giessen.de> Cc: Chris Fedde <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is it possible to discriminate between shell used in CLI andXWindowmode ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008201613490.30570-100000@cfdnet.me.tuns.ca> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10008201957260.5840-100000@sun34>
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Hi, If you are running bash as the user you are su'ing from, use: su -m see 'man su' The -m option leaves your environment and shell unchained. HTH Theo > > On Sun, 20 Aug 2000 17:39:38 +0200 (MET DST) Ariel Burbaickij wrote: > > +------------------ > > | Concrete: I want to leave csh as root shell on the console and work as > > | root with bash in X Window is it somehow managable ? > > | > > | Regards > > +------------------ > > > > start an xterm then run "su -" in it, finaly run "bash --login". > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > At that point you will have a bash shell as user root and run all root's > > .profile and .bashrc stuff > This is the point:probably , I was not precise enough.How to do it > without typing bash --login.Let us try another way:How to set bash as > root's default shell while in X? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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