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| From: | ubiquitous1980 <nixuser1980@×××××.com> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Manual pages (man pages) have ESC all through them when having used sudo. | ||
| Date: | Sun, 28 Feb 2010 05:08:22 | ||
| Message-Id: | 4B89F9E3.3040506@gmail.com | ||
| In Reply to: | [gentoo-user] Re: Manual pages (man pages) have ESC all through them when having used sudo. by Nikos Chantziaras |
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| 1 | Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
| 2 | > On 02/28/2010 05:57 AM, ubiquitous1980 wrote: |
| 3 | >> If I have logged in through sudo such as $ sudo su, when I then use man |
| 4 | >> pages, they are covered in "ESC". This does not occur when using normal |
| 5 | >> user accounts or the root account through su. Wondering what is going |
| 6 | >> on. Thanks. |
| 7 | > |
| 8 | > Some ENV variables are unset by sudo. |
| 9 | > |
| 10 | > But anyway, "sudo su" makes zero sense :P |
| 11 | > |
| 12 | > |
| 13 | sudo su makes sense if you want to use the root account while having the |
| 14 | root account locked. Some, like Ubuntu, do it for security reasons. |
| 15 | Not sure if they are valid, but I thought I would put this little |
| 16 | problem out there for someone to make comment on. |
| Subject | Author |
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| Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Manual pages (man pages) have ESC all through them when having used sudo. | Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> |
| Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Manual pages (man pages) have ESC all through them when having used sudo. | Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> |
| Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Manual pages (man pages) have ESC all through them when having used sudo. | Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> |