On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 19:15 -0500, John Bray wrote: > On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 12:55 -0400, Steven C. Liu wrote: > > Any idea what is causing this? I use gnome, and I think it's gdm.conf. I > > also tried editing /etc/profile by using pathmunge() on /usr/local/bin and > > /usr/local/sbin with $2 = "after", and it did not work (after sourcing > > /etc/profile). Oddly - that should have worked for that root shell I was > > using. (I'm logged in as root.) > > > > I have not yet edit the gdm.conf file because I don't yet wish to restart my > > GUI environment. > > > > Steve > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > > > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Claude Jones > > > Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2005 12:37 PM > > > To: For users of Fedora Core releases > > > Subject: Re: Why use "su -" rather than "su" > > > > > > > > > On Sun July 17 2005 12:27 pm, Tony Nelson wrote: > > > > At 2:13 AM -0500 7/17/05, John Bray wrote: > > > > >here's a classic case of how to realllly screw up. su - to root. echo > > > > >$PATH note that some dolt has managed to set root's path to include > > > > >/usr/local/bin BEFORE the official sbins! want to guess how this > > > > >stupidity is eventually going to bite us all? :-( > > > > > > > > Mine isn't quite so bad, but it does turn out to have the pattern > > > > "foo/sbin", "foo/bin". I expect that you're saying that it > > > should be all > > > > sbins, then the bins. I think I'll change it to that. > > > > > > Still a new user here - could you explain how the PATH is edited? > > > -- > > > Claude Jones > > > Bluemont, VA, USA > > > > > > -- > > > fedora-list mailing list > > > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > > > > > > > > > > i have so far been unsuccessful in determining what is causing this. i > did an informal survey of a number of boxes, and they all had similar > PATH's set up. > > claude - i don't know where to fix it -- yet. :-( > > it sure needs to be done at the distro level somewhere, but i haven't > been able to figure out enough to even do a bugzilla on it. > > john > Look in /etc/profile. That is where the default path is munged and the sbin directories are added for root and the /usr/X11R6/bin is added for all users. The sequence there puts /usr/local/sbin as the first in the path for root. This is not the only place PATH is set, but I can't find the rest of it right now except for $HOME/.bash_profile
