Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 16:17:40 +0000 From: Josh Paetzel <friar_josh@webwarrior.net> To: Anthony Atkielski <anthony@atkielski.com> Cc: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is root's search path special? Message-ID: <20011116161740.B504@twincat.vladsempire.net> In-Reply-To: <00c601c16eeb$a8607c30$0a00000a@atkielski.com>; from anthony@atkielski.com on Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 11:11:29PM %2B0100 References: <15349.30413.867238.510518@guru.mired.org> <00c601c16eeb$a8607c30$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
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On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 11:11:29PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Myprogram was an example, but the real-world case where I found this was with > the text editor joe, which is an executable file. It's in /usr/local/bin, and > /usr/local/bin is in my path, even under root, and yet the shell can't seem to > find it when I am logged in as root, but it finds it when I'm logged in as a > normal user. All the environment variables look pretty much the same, so I was > thinking that there must be something weird about root, but I didn't know where > to look to find out for sure. Given Mike's response, you might tell us which shells the respective accounts are using. Josh > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mike Meyer" <mwm@mired.org> > To: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@atkielski.com> > Cc: <questions@freebsd.org> > Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 21:27 > Subject: Re: Is root's search path special? > > > > Anthony Atkielski <anthony@atkielski.com> types: > > > Why is it that when I try > > > > > > % myprogram > > > > > > it will run under an ordinary user login, but cannot be found under a root > > > login? The program myprogram is in /usr/local/bin, and /usr/local/bin > appears > > > in the PATH for both the user and the root login. Why doesn't it work under > > > root? Is there something special about the way root executes things? > > > > Is myprogram by any chance a script? There's a bug - I claim it's in > > the kernel, but the committers claim that it's in csh - that causes a > > bad interpreter on the "#!" line in a script to cause the program to > > be reported as "not found" by csh. > > > > If it is a script, you might verify that the #! line refers to the > > interpreter by the full path. > > > > <mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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