Am Do, den 16.09.2004 schrieb Kenneth Porter um 9:54: > Cool! Works great! > > Alas, if I su, EDITOR becomes undefined. But if I su -l, it's defined > correctly (as it's in root's .bash_profile. What do I need to do to keep > the variable when I don't use the -l? Set the $EDITOR variable too for your unprivileged user, in his $USER/.bash_profile. Because that environment stays if you run "su" instead of "su -" or "su -l root". /etc/profile or an own file in /etc/profile.d/ is the place to set such a variable system wide for all users. Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG key 1024D/ED695653 1999-07-13 Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 (Tettnang) kernel 2.6.8-1.521smp Serendipity 14:42:35 up 17 days, 11:59, load average: 0.49, 0.22, 0.11
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