Re: completions broken for root user

[Scott Lipcon <slipcon@gmail.com>]

for the archives: i finally figured it out - I had an old zcompdump file 
that wasn't being auto-regenerated for some reason.  After deleting 
that, and logging in, completions work fine again.

Scott



Scott Lipcon wrote:
> Thanks.  I tried removing and recompiling the .zwc files anyway, 
> although root and my user have different .zsh directories, and each can 
> read its own files with no problem.   There are no .zwc files in the 
> /usr/local/share/zsh directories so that shouldn't be a problem...
> 
> For the other poster, I get the same behavior whether I su or log in as 
> root - the default shell for root on FreeBSD is csh, so whenever I 
> become root I just run zsh manually... could that have something to do 
> with it?  Running zsh manually as my user the completions work fine.
> 
> Scott
> 
> 
> 
> On 10/1/05, *Bart Schaefer* <schaefer@brasslantern.com 
> <mailto:schaefer@brasslantern.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On Sep 30, 11:58am, Scott Lipcon wrote:
>     }
>     } What else should I be looking for?
> 
>     The only thing I can think of is to look for .zwc files that are
>     readable only by root and which need to be recompiled.
> 
>