Re: man du versus BLOCKSIZE

[Vadim Vygonets <vadik@cs.huji.ac.il>]

> I logged in as root on that occasion.  I realize that when the machine
> starts up it says don't use root, but I also notice that root is setup
> with proper paths to do system work.  
> 
> Are we supposed to customize our user account by merging in stuff from the
> .cshrc and .login files from the ~root directory?

The default .cshrc aliases su as "su -m".  I, haven hated it,
removed the alias, causing su to use root's shell and environment.
One more thing that you can do is to use the construct

if ( "`whoami`" == root )
	# commands
endif

in your .cshrc file.

Vadik.

-- 
Vadim Vygonets * vadik@cs.huji.ac.il * Unix system administrator
Imagine, C++ all day, on a NT machine, using the Development
Environment from hell, Visual C++, using APIs written by an
infinite amount of monkeys...  -- (c) 1997, Henrik Jonsson on asr