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Date:      Thu, 13 Aug 1998 21:51:30 +0200
From:      Rasmus Kaj <kaj@interbizz.se>
To:        khetan@iafrica.com, khetan@chain.freebsd.os.org.za
Cc:        kaj@interbizz.se
Subject:   Re: su problem with freebsd 2.2.7-stable
Message-ID:  <19980813215130D.kaj@interbizz.se>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 13 Aug 1998 20:43:20 %2B0200 (SAT)" <Pine.BSF.3.96.980813204057.19868A-100000@chain>
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980813204057.19868A-100000@chain>

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>>>>> "KG" == Khetan Gajjar <khetan@chain.freebsd.os.org.za> writes:

 KG> Every time I run su (and I have normally never had a problem),
 KG> the process just starts to grow, and around roughly 10Mb's of
 KG> resident memory, seg faults. I've rebuilt su from the source
 KG> tree, but it appears that the command is fine.

A guess: This sounds to me like you have something that creates a new
shell in the shell startup files in /root (or whereever the account
you su to lives), and thus run an infinite recurse.

// Rasmus

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