Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Manual pages (man pages) have ESC all through them when having used sudo.

2010-02-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 28 February 2010 07:06:43 ubiquitous1980 wrote: > Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > On 02/28/2010 05:57 AM, ubiquitous1980 wrote: > >> If I have logged in through sudo such as $ sudo su, when I then use man > >> pages, they are covered in "ESC". This does not occur when using normal > >> user

[gentoo-user] Re: Manual pages (man pages) have ESC all through them when having used sudo.

2010-02-28 Thread walt
On 02/27/2010 08:32 PM, Dan Cowsill wrote: On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 10:57 PM, ubiquitous1980 wrote: If I have logged in through sudo such as $ sudo su, when I then use man pages, they are covered in "ESC". This does not occur when using normal user accounts or the root account through su. Wond

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Manual pages (man pages) have ESC all through them when having used sudo.

2010-02-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:03:36 +0800, ubiquitous1980 wrote: > That you stated that the root account was hardly locked if I can sudo su > into it. If you take me as truthful, then you can see that I have done > exactly that: locked the account and sudo su'ed into it. I think you > already knew that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Manual pages (man pages) have ESC all through them when having used sudo.

2010-02-28 Thread ubiquitous1980
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:48:56 +0800, ubiquitous1980 wrote: > > >>> The root account is hardly locked if you can log into it with sudo su >>> (or sudo screen) but sudo -s or sudo -i make more sense in this >>> situation. >>> > > >> localhost ubiquitous1980 # passwd

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Manual pages (man pages) have ESC all through them when having used sudo.

2010-02-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:48:56 +0800, ubiquitous1980 wrote: > > The root account is hardly locked if you can log into it with sudo su > > (or sudo screen) but sudo -s or sudo -i make more sense in this > > situation. > localhost ubiquitous1980 # passwd -l root > Password changed. > localhost ubiqui

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Manual pages (man pages) have ESC all through them when having used sudo.

2010-02-28 Thread ubiquitous1980
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 13:06:43 +0800, ubiquitous1980 wrote: > > >>> Some ENV variables are unset by sudo. >>> > > You can alter that behaviour in /etc/sudoers. I have > > Defaults:%wheel !env_reset > > and don't see this. > > >>> But anyway, "sudo su" makes zero se

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Manual pages (man pages) have ESC all through them when having used sudo.

2010-02-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 13:06:43 +0800, ubiquitous1980 wrote: > > Some ENV variables are unset by sudo. You can alter that behaviour in /etc/sudoers. I have Defaults:%wheel !env_reset and don't see this. > > But anyway, "sudo su" makes zero sense :P > sudo su makes sense if you want to use the ro

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Manual pages (man pages) have ESC all through them when having used sudo.

2010-02-27 Thread Dale
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 02/28/2010 05:57 AM, ubiquitous1980 wrote: If I have logged in through sudo such as $ sudo su, when I then use man pages, they are covered in "ESC". This does not occur when using normal us

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Manual pages (man pages) have ESC all through them when having used sudo.

2010-02-27 Thread ubiquitous1980
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 02/28/2010 05:57 AM, ubiquitous1980 wrote: >> If I have logged in through sudo such as $ sudo su, when I then use man >> pages, they are covered in "ESC". This does not occur when using normal >> user accounts or the root account through su. Wondering what is going >

[gentoo-user] Re: Manual pages (man pages) have ESC all through them when having used sudo.

2010-02-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/28/2010 05:57 AM, ubiquitous1980 wrote: If I have logged in through sudo such as $ sudo su, when I then use man pages, they are covered in "ESC". This does not occur when using normal user accounts or the root account through su. Wondering what is going on. Thanks. Some ENV variables a