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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!psgrain!newsfeed.internetmci.com!btnet!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!falstaf.demon.co.uk!falstaf.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: robin@falstaf.demon.co.uk (Robin Birch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: SU -c switch Date: 4 Nov 1995 11:01:28 -0000 Organization: Ruff'n Ready Lines: 17 Message-ID: <47fh68$8d@falstaf.demon.co.uk> Reply-To: robin@falstaf.demon.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: falstaf.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: falstaf.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Dear All, Many systems, my PDP-11 running 2bsd amongst others, allow me to do something like su news -c "some command string". This then allows me to execute the command string as news. I am running FreeBSD 2.0 and this doesn't appear to do this. If I enter such a string all I get is the sh prompt and I hae to mannually enter the command. What am I doing wrong?. Or is there some stuff I have to set up before I can do this?. Yours confused Robin