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Date:      Sat, 23 Aug 2008 19:59:51 -0700
From:      "Garrett Cooper" <yanefbsd@gmail.com>
To:        "Aryeh Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>
Cc:        RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: What is difference between /etc/rc called programs and ones called after login prompt shows up
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On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 7:02 PM, Aryeh Friedman
<aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 7:39 PM, RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, 23 Aug 2008 23:13:49 +0100
>> RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, 23 Aug 2008 16:38:13 -0400
>>> "Aryeh Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> > c) See a additionally to prove all the above here is my /etc/rc (the
>>> > last 2 lines where added just to prove the point):
>>> >
>>> > #!/bin/sh
>>> >
>>> > PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin
>>> >
>>> > swapon -a
>>> > fsck -p
>>> > ...
>>> > fuse: failed to exec mount program: No such file or directory
>>> >
>>> > Thus it is clear that the *ONLY* difference between the /etc/rc
>>> > calls and the post getty calls is when they are made.
>>>
>>> There's another difference: your /etc/rc script doesn't export PATH.
>>
>> That does seem to be the answer.
>>
>> I was curious as to why it only fails on ntfs, so I had a look
>> at the source. It seems that mount and fsck find mount_* and fsck_*
>> through a hard-coded path of "/rescue:/sbin:/usr/sbin", but
>> mount_ntfs-3g then additionally has to find mount_fusefs through the
>> environment path.
>>
>> Perhaps sysutils/fusefs-libs should be patched to make the whole thing
>> more self-consistent.

Isn't the typical use-case for fuse-based FS'es to be executed in
userland though by non-root users?
-Garrett



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