Strange behavior of su

[George Williams]

We are running bsd4.2 on a vax 750.

Every now and then after I have been logged in for a while I will try to
su, have su ask the password, and then it sits for a bit and exits.  It
does not generate any error messages, the exit status is 0.  After this
has happened it will keep happening until I log out, I have always been
able to su immediately after logging in.

Anyone else had this? Anyone know why?

			    George Williams
			    decvax!frog!aphasia!gww


One day I shall burst my bud
Of calm, and blossom into hysteria.