From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11960 invoked from network); 14 Apr 1997 15:13:28 -0000 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 14 Apr 1997 15:13:28 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA00751; Mon, 14 Apr 1997 11:05:57 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 11:03:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Zefram Message-Id: <27532.199704141506@stone.dcs.warwick.ac.uk> Subject: Re: strange behaviour with .zsh and su To: mito@sprynet.com Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 16:06:26 +0100 (BST) Cc: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu In-Reply-To: <19970414103243.56053@retriever> from "Louis-David Mitterrand" at Apr 14, 97 10:32:43 am X-Loop: zefram@dcs.warwick.ac.uk X-Stardate: [-31]9178.14 X-Phase: The Moon is Waxing Crescent (50% of Full) X-US-Congress: Moronic fuckers X-Personality: INTJ X-This-is-not-HTML: Content-Type: text Resent-Message-ID: <"nv08R3.0.4A.TTaKp"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/801 X-Loop: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu Louis-David Mitterrand wrote: >export ZSHDOTDIR=.zsh Perhaps you want export ZDOTDIR=~/.zsh but in any case this isn't going to work over an su as you can't have two users' startup files in the same place. I suggest you abandon it and just put the startup files in users' home directories. -zefram