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From: abcscnge@csuna.csun.edu (Scott "The Pseudo-Hacker" Neugroschl)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: YAPQ (yet another prompt question)
Message-ID: <2146@csuna.csun.edu>
Date: 22 Aug 89 01:57:09 GMT
References: <1356@unhd.unh.UUCP> <2113@infmx.UUCP> <13542@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
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In article <13542@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes:
]>In article <2113@infmx.UUCP> aland@infmx.UUCP (alan denney) writes:
]=In article <1356@unhd.unh.UUCP> rg@unh.UUCP (Roger   Gonzalez) writes:
]=|
]=|Since a child 'csh' is spawned whenever I 'su', I thought it would be
]=|nice to have the prompt reflect the 'su-ed' state.  Hence, in .cshrc, I
]=|had:
]=|[problem text deleted]
[various flames deleted]

Since Roger is obviousely using csh, how about the following

alias su '/bin/su \!:* -c "exec csh"'

That ought to always force a csh invocation of the su, without the parent
sh hanging around...


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