On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 02:43:19PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
> When I do a su - sysadm on one server with Woody I get the error
> message in the subject line. That happens only when su to sysadm is
> being used.
>
> Apart from the error message everything seems work normally:
>
> 14:40:38 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/log/exim4$ sudo su - sysadm
> /dev/pts/0: Operation not permitted
> 14:40:42 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
> 14:40:42 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ exit
> logout
> 14:41:30 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/log/exim4$
>
> What is causing this?
The culprit was the following line in ~/.bash_profile:
biff y
Commenting that out stopped the error messages.
Maybe biff can't be used if one su - 'ed to a user?
Regards
Johann
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