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From: zrzr0111@helpdesk.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (Kurt Jaeger aka PI)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Cshell hangs on "touch ~/.ididsu ; su"
Keywords: bs
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Date: 8 Dec 90 23:04:55 GMT
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Hi !

While testing a little feature that might help me with doing my root-work
I stumbled across a strange feature:

alias su "touch ~/.ididsu ; su"

su

And then the session hangs. It does not react on ctrl-d, DEL or ctrl-c.
The telnet-session can still be quit by ctrl-], but that was NOT my intention.

What the h*ll I am doing wrong ?

I checked it on a ultrix 3.[12] and the commando worked...

		Thanks in advance, PI

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