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Date:      Thu, 6 Jan 2000 00:44:37 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
To:        Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: window manager question
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001060043140.62656-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
In-Reply-To: <200001052203.XAA37242@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>

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On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Oliver Fromme wrote:

>When you use ``su -m'', the environment variables are not
>modified (see the su(1) manpage), including $USER, $LOGNAME,
>$HOME, $MAIL...  I guess this has confused your mail client.

Here's one problem i have with this: i have several aliases for root only
to mount filesystems and do a few other things.  Is there a way to pick
these up when i su to root?

-=> jm <=-





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