On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 10:24:31AM -0500, John W Foster wrote:
> I have been experimenting a bit and have tried this command line for
> upgrading my system;
> 
> apt-get -y update; apt-get -y upgrade 
> 
> It works fine if issued from a root terminal. However as a command line
> issued as 'root' from webmin it fails with this error;

I do not use webmin but What is the $HOME and $USER under such
environment.

As I see output...

> After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
> dpkg: `ldconfig' not found on PATH.
> dpkg: `start-stop-daemon' not found on PATH.
> dpkg: `install-info' not found on PATH.
> dpkg: `update-rc.d' not found on PATH.
> dpkg: 4 expected program(s) not found on PATH.
> NB: root's PATH should usually contain /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin
> and /sbin.
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
> ---------------------------------------

I see.  Under webmin, $PATH variable is not set as usual shell
environment.  You may wish to set webmin to set several importanrt
environment variables for root shell.

Osamu



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