At 7:58 AM +0100 7/18/05, Paul Howarth wrote: >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 Hmm. Seems like it would be better to do it the way pathmunge() would have it, with all the "sbins" together before any of the "bin"s. :( I'm sorry that I won't be here for any reply, but I'll get it next week. :) ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
