On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 9:55 PM, Quanah Gibson-Mount <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] build]# su -l zimbra -c "echo $PATH" > /usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/local/java/bin:/usr/local/ant/bin:/usr/local/mysql/bin:/usr/local/ant/bin:/usr/local/java/bin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/build/bin:/usr/local/p4/bin > > This means of course, that using "su -l <user> -c command" will fail to > execute commands that should be found in the user's path, necessitating that > one use a fully qualified path to the command.
Greetings, You are using a double quote which will expand the $PATH variable before switching to the user zimbra. See this example: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# su -l noland -c "echo $PATH" /usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# su -l noland -c 'echo $PATH' /usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/home/noland/bin Here is another example which shows this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# echo su -l noland -c "echo $PATH" su -l noland -c echo /usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# echo su -l noland -c 'echo $PATH' su -l noland -c echo $PATH Respectfully, Brock _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
