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Date:      Wed, 17 Apr 2002 15:59:11 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Jim Mercer <jim@reptiles.org>
To:        freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   bin/37201: /usr/local/sbin dropped from PATH in /etc/rc
Message-ID:  <200204172259.g3HMxBX02345@freefall.freebsd.org>

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>Number:         37201
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       /usr/local/sbin dropped from PATH in /etc/rc
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Apr 17 16:00:06 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Jim Mercer
>Release:        4.5-STABLE circa 2002-04-17
>Organization:
Reptilian Research
>Environment:
FreeBSD cvsup.egate.net 4.5-STABLE FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE #0: Wed Apr 17 12:35:28 EDT 2002     root@cvsup.egate.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/EGATE-CVS  i386

>Description:
      on/about 2002-04-15, /etc/rc was updated and the PATH was changed
so that it no longer includes /usr/local/sbin.

if this is a feature, please document it.

this change will effect many scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d which ran based on the PATH set in /etc/rc



>How-To-Repeat:
      look for a scipt in /usr/local/etc/rc.d which does not explicitly
specify a path, or update $PATH, reboot, and they will not found,
luckily evidenced with "dmesg -a"

>Fix:
      revert the PATH in /etc/rc to the previous, which was
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin

or, add a PATH= and export PATH statements to /etc/rc.conf

>Release-Note:
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