>>On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 02:42:16PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: >>>On a fresh fc2 install, suing to root doesn't update the path to contain >>>/sbin, /usr/sbin and /usr/local/sbin. >>> >>>Has anyone else had this problem? > On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 22:45:55 +0100, Dave Cross <dave@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>"su root" doesn't do that. "su - root" does. That's how su has always >>worked. >>
I've been using debian since 1999, and having the path modified for non-login shells seems normal to me. Is there any drawback where modifying $PATH for non-login shells might cause trouble?
Erik Espinoza wrote:
Would you happen to be using an old version of the j2re from Dag? He defaulted the path improperly in /etc/profile.d/java.sh. It was changed in subsequent versions however.
Name : j2re Version : 1.4.2 Release : 8.1.fc2.dag
Mike
