You (Ian Jackson) wrote: > It seems to me that init should have an appropriate default PATH. > This is especially true if the default is hard to change or override. > > I've recently been bitten by an /etc/rc?.d script not having the PATH > I expected. > > The default PATH for non-superuser programs everywhere should be > /usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin > and for superuser (admin) programs > /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin > should it not ? [...] > I shall reopen this bug report, to ensure that the issue is not > forgotten; I hope we won't have to have more discussion before a > consensus is reached, but if we do I hope the sysvinit maintainer will > bear with us and allow us to keep the bug on his books while we agree > what to do.
As noone has really followed up on this, and it sounds reasonable to me, I've fixed the PATH setting in init.c and /etc/init.d/boot and /etc/init.d/rc as proposed above. (I have also changed this in login.c from util-linux while porting to the Alpha - I think this will get back in the main dist). Closing this bug report -Mike. -- Miquel van | Cistron Internet Services -- Alphen aan den Rijn. Smoorenburg, | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cistron.nl/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Tel: +31-172-419445 (Voice) 430979 (Fax) 442580 (Data)
