[Pkg-mc-devel] Bug#405044: closed by Patrick Winnertz <winnie at debian.org> (this also don't work on command line)

[Michelle Konzack]

Hello Patrick,

Am 2008-02-13 13:18:03, schrieb Debian Bug Tracking System:
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> Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:14:33 +0100
> From: Patrick Winnertz <winnie at debian.org>
> To: 405044-done at bugs.debian.org
> Subject: this also don't work on command line
> User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I've tried to reproduce it... and indeed this doesn't work in mc..
> but it also doesn't work in plain bash/zsh ..
> so please use for this issue: 
> 
> su root -c nano %s ... this should work.
> 
> Greetings
> Winnie

> Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 19:11:57 +0100
> From: Michelle Konzack <linux4michelle at freenet.de>
> To: BTS <submit at bugs.debian.org>
> Subject: mc can not execute ANY executables from the commandline
> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i
> 
> Package: mc
> Version: 1:4.6.1-5
> Severity: minor
> 
> Error description:
> 
> mc refuse to execute any commands on the commandline.
> Sometimes I need to bee root to edit quickly a file and I use
> 
>     su root -- nano %s
> 
> which is not more working. (%s is the actual selected file)
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Yes right, I think, the change from "--" to "-c" was done
from Woody => Sarge so one could use only "-c" now.

And it seems, "--" was fully droped in newer versions of 'su'.

Thanks, Greetings and nice Day
    Michelle Konzack


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