On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 11:34, Sam Rosenfeld wrote: > running env from my $HOME directory gets me a bunch of wrong entries; > e.g. MAIL=/var/mail/root, LOGNAME=root, DISPLAY=:0.0. How can I change > these (and other) settings? Who are you logged in as? Your environment depends on that, not on your current directory (except PWD of course). Richard (PS Sam: sorry about the direct email)