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Re: 9.0.6: Misc. issues, some serious
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Jun 12 14:46:40 2001
Message-Id: <200106121846.OAA14686@egyptian-gods.MIT.EDU>
To: Mitchell E Berger <mitchb@MIT.EDU>
cc: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>, testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 12 Jun 2001 14:40:12 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 14:46:25 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> Did you "su root" or "su - root"? If used without the hyphen, that
> sounds right because it's not supposed to mess with much in your
> environment, including the prompt strings. If you su with a hyphen,
> you should get the fully qualified hostname with a pound sign as a
> prompt. This is working fine for me.
Well, we could use %# in the prompt. I'll submit a patch to do that.
