Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Manual pages (man pages) have ESC all through them when having used sudo.

[ubiquitous1980]

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.