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 1Nlb7K-0000XN-B6 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 04:50:58 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 53679E0770; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 04:49:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22DB0E0770 for ; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 04:49:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13E901B431D for ; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 04:49:57 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.719 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.719 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.739, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_SORBS_WEB=0.619] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id qSL2iEyFIUmm for ; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 04:49:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6131B1B4149 for ; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 04:49:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nlb69-0001yb-G9 for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 05:49:45 +0100 Received: from athedsl-381665.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.42.223]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 05:49:45 +0100 Received: from realnc by athedsl-381665.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 28 Feb 2010 05:49:45 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Manual pages (man pages) have ESC all through them when having used sudo. Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 06:49:39 +0200 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <4B89E9B0.3040505@gmail.com> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-381665.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100206 Thunderbird/3.0.1 In-Reply-To: <4B89E9B0.3040505@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 3da28bb4-0bd9-4a21-be4f-d4533bf5a6df X-Archives-Hash: 990e6e54fc8a79a35c7d6b8ead79562a 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