Nicolas Richard <theonewiththeevill...@yahoo.fr> wrote: >Hi everybody, > >I don't understand where sudo finds the value for the PATH env >variable. > >Here is the output of the relevant (at least I thought they were) >commands. Can somebody explain to me why I still have >/usr/local/texlive/*2011*/bin/i386-linux in the first sudo output ? I >don't get it, and did not find anything in the man page of sudo. > >Thanks in advance for your help. > >youngfrog@geodiff-mac3 ~ $ bash -c 'echo $PATH' >~/bin/overrideglobal:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.5.4:/usr/games/bin:/usr/local/texlive/2012/bin/i386-linux:~/bin > >youngfrog@geodiff-mac3 ~ $ source /etc/profile > >youngfrog@geodiff-mac3 ~ $ bash -c 'echo $PATH' >/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.5.4:/usr/games/bin:/usr/local/texlive/2012/bin/i386-linux > >youngfrog@geodiff-mac3 ~ $ sudo bash -c 'echo $PATH' >/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/opt/bin:/usr/local/texlive/2011/bin/i386-linux > >youngfrog@geodiff-mac3 ~ $ sudo -i bash -c 'echo $PATH' >/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.5.4:/usr/local/texlive/2012/bin/i386-linux:/root/bin > >youngfrog@geodiff-mac3 ~ $ sudo grep -r texlive/2011 /etc > >youngfrog@geodiff-mac3 ~ $ sudo grep -r texlive/2011 ~root >/root/.bash_history:cd /usr/local/texlive/2011 >/root/.bash_history:grep texlive/2011 * -r >/root/.bash_history:grep texlive/2011 . -r >/root/.bash_history:grep texlive/2011 .* -r > >youngfrog@geodiff-mac3 ~ $ grep -v '^#\|^$' /etc/environment >PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.5.3:/usr/local/texlive/2012/bin/i386-linux:/root/bin
Nicolas. I can see several /usr/local/... paths in your /etc/environment. -- Joost -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
