On Sunday 08 May 2011 18:46:46 Enda Cronnolly wrote: > On Sunday 08 May 2011 18:35:42 David Jarvie wrote: > > Is there any KDE or Qt way to locate an executable using the root PATH. > > Specifically, I want to run something which on my system is in /usr/sbin/, > > calling it from a KAuth helper module running as root. > > KStandarDirs::findExe() doesn't produce any result (the PATH variable > > doesn't seem to be set up). I could hard code the /usr/sbin/ path, but > > that doesn't seem desirable in case the executable is elsewhere on some > > systems. > > http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?whereis
This does the job on the command line, but it's not particularly easy to call it from C++ code. -- David Jarvie. KDE developer. KAlarm author -- http://www.astrojar.org.uk/kalarm
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