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Date:      Wed, 4 Feb 1998 13:23:06 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        The Administrator <admin@righi.df.unibo.it>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: su
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980204132207.15689U-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980204172255.1457A-100000@righi.df.unibo.it>

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On Wed, 4 Feb 1998, The Administrator wrote:

> how come when I become root using su
> the w commmand display what I Am doing instead of displaying  -  ?
> on many unix system this does not happen why it happens here
> on FreeBSD?
> THere is a way to change this behaviour of w ?

Sure, use who instead.  w always displays the current process of the user.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major





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