From: Stefan Monnier <monnier+/news/lists/zsh/users@TEQUILA.SYSTEMSZ.CS.YALE.EDU>
To: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: strange behaviour with .zsh and su
Date: 14 Apr 1997 13:03:22 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5liv1p5yg5.fsf@tequila.systemsz.cs.yale.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19970414103243.56053@retriever>
Louis-David Mitterrand <mito@aparima.com> writes:
> user but now when I 'su' to root from that account root's .zshrc isn't
> sourced anymore even though I put root's .zshrc into its own ZDOTDIR...
"su" generally doesn't start the shell as a login shell, so your /etc/zprofile
is not sourced. You probably want to use "su -" instead.
Stefan
prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-04-14 17:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-04-14 14:32 Louis-David Mitterrand
1997-04-14 15:06 ` Zefram
1997-04-14 15:47 ` Timothy Luoma
1997-04-14 15:48 ` Louis-David Mitterrand
1997-04-14 16:01 ` Timothy Luoma
1997-04-14 16:14 ` Louis-David Mitterrand
[not found] ` <mito@aparima.com>
1997-04-14 16:54 ` Bart Schaefer
1997-04-14 18:20 ` Stefan Monnier
1997-04-14 18:32 ` Richard Coleman
1997-04-14 20:27 ` Stefan Monnier
1997-04-14 18:42 ` Tom Howland
1997-04-14 16:02 ` gwing
1997-04-14 17:03 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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