From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6746 invoked from network); 21 Jun 1997 19:40:53 -0000 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 21 Jun 1997 19:40:53 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA22840; Sat, 21 Jun 1997 15:34:21 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Sat, 21 Jun 1997 15:34:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Zoltan Hidvegi Message-Id: <199706211937.PAA01789@hzoli.home> Subject: Re: no $USER when root In-Reply-To: <199706211930.PAA26345@kira.peak.org> from "Timothy J. Luoma" at "Jun 21, 97 03:30:09 pm" To: luomat@peak.org Date: Sat, 21 Jun 1997 15:37:55 -0400 (EDT) Cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-ID: <"VyLOr.0.ma5.yo2hp"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/3278 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu > Sorry is this is old news to you all, but I just realized that when I am > logged in as root there is no $USER variable set. USER is not set by zsh, it should be set by login or su or xdm or whatever. Zoltan