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From: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer)
Subject: Re: Manual pages sometimes miss information....
Message-ID: <1995Nov6.182726.1534@wavehh.hanse.de>
Organization: BSD User Group Hamburg
References: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951022024358.1055A-100000@ntworker.gscorp.com> <Pine.BSF.3.91.951022033320.1233A-100000@ntworker.gscorp.com> <46hb1r$dq3@uriah.heep.sax.de> <47kule$dh0@grapool30.rz.uni-frankfurt.de>
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 95 18:27:26 GMT
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Postings sometimes miss information....
avg@orakel.rz.uni-frankfurt.de (Anton von Gotstedter) writes:
>J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote:
>> Philipp Ott <philipp@gscorp.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >Grummel, here's another small trap which differs from other Linux
>> >flavours: the csh prompt (from su) didn't tell me that I was still root.
>> >Hmpf.
>> You are free to put whatever you want into root's .cshrc file, and it
>> will be executed even for su(8).
>> My ~root/.cshrc ends up in:
>> ...
>> if ($?prompt) then
>> set prompt="`hostname -s ` # "
>> endif
>> set path = ( /sbin /usr/sbin /bin /usr/bin /usr/local/bin /usr/X11R6/bin )
>> Btw., having /usr/sbin in the path might even be useful for normal
>> users:
>> HIER(7) UNIX Reference Manual HIER(7)
>> NAME
>> hier - layout of filesystems
>> ...
>> /usr/ contains the majority of user utilities and applications
>> ...
>> sbin/ system daemons & system utilities (executed by users)
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> --
>> cheers, J"org
>> joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
>> Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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