From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NlcVo-0002G6-1g for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 06:20:21 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C74A5E07F2; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 06:19:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gy0-f181.google.com (mail-gy0-f181.google.com [209.85.160.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E5ECE07F2 for ; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 06:19:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gyg4 with SMTP id 4so641312gyg.40 for ; Sat, 27 Feb 2010 22:19:08 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=U7T501eDMwMGRD7Ki0x296KMMv+JfOjen4d5W1ZNj+w=; b=f5jKBoxBGK+hw/OSewqEAGxCu5knJ5JTQgPnEeoCvtuDWxK3sv6gut8F+vz7jAdIRK 97y2NUbKSpGZWkDoA7ig+LIXm6DIw3sF+rwQsg1nxNHguIqN/kRa0E+f32XExbz1UBt9 GAAnYWRYdVx/BH9R7ryxvVnDi+3JMrx3kW5G4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=e9U731dtqqbMBXinhTko9RkGeckznGTcWw5w1goBLJbQIOjJ8RS37225NRIlxnQCy8 70m+91nPjs6c8EPDEoEpoVr4dkqgvhuAOYC+ihX43Ylt+iNCglYZ+9PUVVNpsrRQ9UOk B/XO/otHe5ANMfYyesSS7uyNq6CeEV88LFLaw= Received: by 10.101.199.23 with SMTP id b23mr2082245anq.209.1267337948295; Sat, 27 Feb 2010 22:19:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.1.1? (adsl-0-94-66.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.94.66]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 15sm1419024gxk.2.2010.02.27.22.19.06 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 27 Feb 2010 22:19:07 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4B8A0AD8.1030500@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:19:04 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100223 Gentoo/2.0.2 SeaMonkey/2.0.2 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Manual pages (man pages) have ESC all through them when having used sudo. References: <4B89E9B0.3040505@gmail.com> <4B89F9E3.3040506@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4B89F9E3.3040506@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 1e79b82f-633d-47b7-9f19-efb668ed012e X-Archives-Hash: a273b5f5fa308e5d05fb789ca7d6f673 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 >>> user accounts or the root account through su. Wondering what is going >>> on. Thanks. >>> >> Some ENV variables are unset by sudo. >> >> But anyway, "sudo su" makes zero sense :P >> >> >> > sudo su makes sense if you want to use the root account while having the > root account locked. Some, like Ubuntu, do it for security reasons. > Not sure if they are valid, but I thought I would put this little > problem out there for someone to make comment on. > > I don't use sudo or su but I have seen this a time or two. I have no clue why tho. It was a while ago but I was in a console at the time. I usually use a Konsole within KDE. I don't recall ever seeing this problem there. I was curious but never thought is would be more than just me that saw this. Dale :-) :-)