On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 12:27 -0400, 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. The arrangement you've described is the normal default; no need to change it. For instance, root's path here is: /usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/root/bin Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
