From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26847 invoked from network); 3 Jan 2000 18:13:36 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 3 Jan 2000 18:13:36 -0000 Received: (qmail 12984 invoked by alias); 3 Jan 2000 18:13:24 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 2823 Received: (qmail 12976 invoked from network); 3 Jan 2000 18:13:24 -0000 From: John Galbraith Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2000 11:14:07 -0700 (MST) To: Steve Reid Cc: John Galbraith , zsh-users@sunsite.auc.dk Subject: Re: PS1 corrupted through "su" In-Reply-To: <20000103101054.A420@grok.localnet> References: <14448.55754.322294.62194@bartok.lanl.gov> <20000103101054.A420@grok.localnet> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14448.58999.743035.372268@bartok.lanl.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII >>>>> "Steve" == Steve Reid writes: Steve> Root's shell being set to something other than zsh would cause Steve> the behavior you're seeing. Steve> You've probably checked that already, but sometimes the obvious Steve> things are the easiest to forget. Yeah, I have a special user "toor" that is root, but uses /usr/local/bin/zsh as the shell. I only actually use "root" itself if /usr/local is either missing or not installed yet. I once made the mistake of setting the actual root shell to /usr/local/bin/zsh... John