* Non-member submission from [Thomas Esser <te@informatik.uni-hannover.de>]
@ 2002-05-27 20:52 Hans Hagen
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From: Hans Hagen @ 2002-05-27 20:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
>
> > If I su to my home directory from root (or su to root from my home
> dir), then
> > texexec gives the error
>
>Don't do
> su userid
>
>Better do
> su - userid
>
>That su without "-" just gives you a shell which initialy inheritares
>environment variables from the root shell. E.g. HOME will not be set
>to your usual directory and the new shell will not read the usual
>.profile and /etc/profile stuff.
>
>Thomas
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