On Sat, 2011-07-23 at 17:53 -0400, David A. De Graaf wrote:
> As I understand it (from the golden years of UNIX), what happens when
> I type /bin/su - dad is roughly this:
> - the shell forks, creating a child with all of the parent's exported
> environment but not the rest, and including std
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 02:31:57PM -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
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> On 07/23/2011 02:17 PM, David A. De Graaf wrote:
> > Since doing fresh installs of Fedora 15 on two computers, I've found
> > that the DISPLAY environment variable is not expo
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On 07/23/2011 02:17 PM, David A. De Graaf wrote:
> Since doing fresh installs of Fedora 15 on two computers, I've found
> that the DISPLAY environment variable is not exported in some cases,
> despite being declared "exported".
>
> This seems to be a
