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Date:      Thu, 27 May 2004 00:32:03 +0200
From:      Toni Schmidbauer <toni@stderror.at>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Odd one: my root account disappears into hyperspace.
Message-ID:  <20040526223203.GJ549@stderror.at>
In-Reply-To: <F040ABAB-AF1D-11D8-B217-000D93511A6A@hhbb.co.uk>
References:  <F040ABAB-AF1D-11D8-B217-000D93511A6A@hhbb.co.uk>

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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=20
> something odd happens:
>=20
> a) the output of some shell commands seems to be redirected somewhere=20
> other then my xterm;
> b) when I try to run emacs or vi, I get: "emacs: standard input is not=20
> a tty"
>=20
> This doesn't happen when I log in as another user and try it. I've=20
> tried comparing the contents of our two home directories, and there=20
> appears no difference.

show us exactly what commands you are using.=20

look for io redirections (< or > in bash) in your .profile,=20
=2Ebashrc, root's .profile and .bashrc and finally /etc/profile and=20
any scripts that are called from within the mentioned files.

hth,
toni
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Wer es einmal so weit gebracht hat, dass er nicht | toni at stderror dot at
mehr irrt, der hat auch zu arbeiten aufgehoert    | Toni Schmidbauer
-- Max Planck                                     |

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