Hi, On redhat 8.0. This issue has certainly to do with utf-8. I don't know where to report it in bugzilla, as it may be a su issue, a glibc issue, a kernel issue ? or even a non issue (but I doubt it). I have glibc-2.2.93-5 kernel-2.4.18-17.8.0 sh-utils-2.0.12-3 When on a tty I do $su - snfs -c "echo nothing" > /root/test in /root/test, I have ESC%Gnothing The same happen in boot scripts but not on xterms. (note that I don't run X as root, but I do a su - to root before doing my tests). I think that ESC%G is the escape sequence telling the console to go in utf-8 mode or the like. I don't have this issue on an xterm Another similar test: $(set -x;test=`su - snfs -c "echo nothing"`; echo $test) 2>/root/set_test in /root/set_test, there is: + set -x ++ su - snfs -c 'echo nothing' + test=ESC%Gnothing + echo $'\E%Gnothing' locale gives LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="fr_FR.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="fr_FR.UTF-8" LC_TIME="fr_FR.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="fr_FR.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="fr_FR.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="fr_FR.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="fr_FR.UTF-8" LC_NAME="fr_FR.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="fr_FR.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="fr_FR.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="fr_FR.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="fr_FR.UTF-8" LC_ALL= To work around those issues, I changed to su snfs instead of su - snfs, but this might be an issue to solve. Pat _______________________________________________ Redhat-devel-list mailing list Redhat-devel-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list
