From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jadamson@partners.org (Joel J. Adamson) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: SU commands from Emacs Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 15:38:48 -0400 Organization: Harvard University Message-ID: <87r6m2gddj.fsf@W0053328.mgh.harvard.edu> References: <878x8ahxho.fsf@W0053328.mgh.harvard.edu> <9cps1m10mm.fsf@freenet.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1187379747 32409 80.91.229.12 (17 Aug 2007 19:42:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 19:42:27 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 17 21:42:20 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IM7i7-0001BV-AP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Aug 2007 21:42:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IM7i6-0004i1-SE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Aug 2007 15:42:18 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.rh-tec.net!newsfeed.cw.net!cw.net!news-FFM2.ecrc.de!uio.no!quimby.gnus.org!news.ccs.neu.edu!news.dfci.harvard.edu!news.harvard.edu!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 23 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: w0053328.mgh.harvard.edu Original-X-Trace: plato.harvard.edu 1187379581 24452 132.183.29.121 (17 Aug 2007 19:39:41 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@plato.harvard.edu Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 19:39:41 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:lRTCeTUapL59RUqvNa9tY3D/43k= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:151087 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:46660 Archived-At: Emilio Lopes writes: > Joel J Adamson writes: > >> [...] I have sudo installed on Slackware Linux 12.0, but the password >> prompt does not come up properly. > > I guess the problem is that one of your shell init files probably > (executes a command which) writes to STDOUT. Where should I have it send the output? How do I get it to the minibuffer so I can interact with it? Joel -- Joel J. Adamson Biostatistician Pediatric Psychopharmacology Research Unit Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA 02114 (617) 643-1432 (303) 880-3109