Re: tlug: shelling root

[Jim Tittsler <jwt-tlug@example.com>]

On Sun, Sep 27, 1998 at 06:17:09PM +0900, Eric S. Standlee wrote:
> I have a problem shelling root and not being able to ppp-on.  If I get out
> of that user and exit altogether and then login root, it works just fine!

Hmmm... do you mean that you are having trouble executing commands after
doing 'su'?  Did you try 'su -l' so that the shell is a "login shell"
(getting rid of most of your environment variables, and then causing
the new user's login startup files to be read)?

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Jim Tittsler, Tokyo   ICQ: 5981586


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