Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 14:07:04 +0200 From: Bertram Scharpf <lists@bertram-scharpf.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why is www's $PATH only /usr/bin:/bin? Message-ID: <20160427120704.GA77440@becker.bs.l> In-Reply-To: <20160426194048.GA31481@box-fra-01.niklaas.eu> References: <20160426194048.GA31481@box-fra-01.niklaas.eu>
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On Tuesday, 26. Apr 2016, 21:40:48 +0200, Niklaas Baudet von Gersdorff wrote: > I figured that www's $PATH is only /usr/bin:/bin. Why is that if > /etc/login.conf says the following? > > default:\ > --------8<-------- > :path=/sbin /bin /usr/sbin /usr/bin /usr/games /usr/local/sbin /usr/local/bin ~/bin:\ > --------8<-------- > The thing is that I want to run something in /usr/local/bin with PHP's > > shell_exec($cmd); > > but that's not working because it's not in $PATH. I wondered as well about this behaviour sometimes. The default path from login.conf will be set at login. Yet, the www daemon is started from rc and this is not understood to be a login. The perverse thing is that when you do a "/usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache24 restart" from the command line, then the PATH variable will contain the value you expect. I recommend to include a line into your Apache configuration (or whichever HTTP server you use) like SetEnv PATH /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin Cron does the same by "PATH=..." as you can see in "/etc/crontab". There is no possibility to do this in lpd, wherefore I wrote a bug report. Have a look at the description. <https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=205604>; Bertram -- Bertram Scharpf Stuttgart, Deutschland/Germany http://www.bertram-scharpf.de
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