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Re: emacsclient from a root window?


From: Dan Jacobson
Subject: Re: emacsclient from a root window?
Date: 13 Nov 2001 17:26:53 +0800
User-agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7

>>>>> "S" == Stefan Monnier <monnier+gnu.emacs.bug/news/@RUM.cs.yale.edu> 
>>>>> writes:

>> # emacsclient /etc/fstab
>> emacsclient: can't find socket; have you started the server?

S> I think it only works if you did `su' but not if you logged in
S> as root or if you did `su -'.

Indeed, I did plain su, I've set the environment variables perfectly
the same:
$ emacs &
$ env > tmp
$ su
# . tmp
# emacsclient file
emacsclient: can't find socket; have you started the server?

Does anybody have it working here in emacs 20?
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