On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Massimo Manghi wrote:
>
> the change of ownership in ~/.pinerc is probably due to a mistake in the
> way pine (I mean pine packaged for Debian Linux) gets some
> environment variable. You can reproduce the change in the ownership of
> ~/.pinerc by passing as superuser with the command 'su' and then running
> 'pine' again as root. Although pine will read the incoming mail in
> /var/spool/mail/root it uses .pinerc in *your* directory and changes its
> properties.
> I didn't look more deeply at the problem but it sounds like
> the shell you run as root inherits some of the environment
> from the parent shell and does'n generate its own correctly. If you
> look at the saved mail you see that pine reads the user's mail
> instead of root's. That suggests to me that when you become superuser
> with 'su' the definition of '~' is wrong.
No, that seems to be o.k.:
$ su
Password:
# cd ~
# pwd
/root
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