Re: How can one edit the env info?

[Shyamal Prasad <shyamal.prasad@sbcglobal.net>]

    "Sam" == Sam Rosenfeld <sam@wdn.com> writes:

    Sam> running env from my $HOME directory gets me a bunch of wrong
    Sam> entries; e.g. MAIL=/var/mail/root, LOGNAME=root,
    Sam> DISPLAY=:0.0.  How can I change these (and other) settings?

Perhaps you simply need to login as a user other than root?

Sorry, could not resist that. What exactly is wrong with the above
entries?  And what do you mean by "running env from my $HOME," i.e
does it matter what your current directory is? What is the value of
$HOME? 

Cheers!
Shsyamal