On Sat, 2011-07-23 at 17:53 -0400, David A. De Graaf wrote:
> As I understand it (from the golden years of UNIX), what happens when
> I type /bin/su - dad is roughly this:
> - the shell forks, creating a child with all of the parent's exported
> environment but not the rest, and including std
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 02:31:57PM -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
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> On 07/23/2011 02:17 PM, David A. De Graaf wrote:
> > Since doing fresh installs of Fedora 15 on two computers, I've found
> > that the DISPLAY environment variable is not expo
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On 07/23/2011 02:17 PM, David A. De Graaf wrote:
> Since doing fresh installs of Fedora 15 on two computers, I've found
> that the DISPLAY environment variable is not exported in some cases,
> despite being declared "exported".
>
> This seems to be a
Since doing fresh installs of Fedora 15 on two computers, I've found
that the DISPLAY environment variable is not exported in some cases,
despite being declared "exported".
This seems to be a clear violation of the EXPORT rules in /bin/bash.
It is a severe handicap in a root window, since most of
