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Re: su to root won't use the $LANG.. why?



On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 04:26:53PM +0100, Kent Nyberg wrote:
> When i su to root, then root wont use the LANG variable.
> Well.. the LANG isn't passed on from the normal user..
> How could i make it so that su will use that..  

im not sure why su resets that, probably some security reason.  i
would say just export it in /root/.bashrc.  in general you shouldn't
be root enough for it to matter though. 

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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