Date: 01 Aug 2001 17:33:45 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <lowell@world.std.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, auman@info4seniors.org Subject: Re: Start up script and PATH statement Message-ID: <44puafpirq.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> In-Reply-To: auman@info4seniors.org's message of "1 Aug 2001 15:42:16 %2B0200" References: <3B67CE4C.25682.90BD221@localhost>
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auman@info4seniors.org (Daniel Auman) writes:
> Sorry for the simple question but. . .
>
> I wanted to start a copy of 'vncserver' at boot up. The script works
> after boot is complete and I'm logged in as root. Upon boot the start
> up script I wrote complains about "xauth" not being in my PATH.
> "xauth" is in '/usr/X11R6/bin' which is in root's '.profile' PATH
> statement as well as '/.profile'.
>
> Can anybody help? Thanks in advance.
The path with which the local scripts are called is specified near the
beginning of /etc/rc. You could add to it in your rc.conf, or in your
vncserver script, but it's probably better to just use the full paths
inside your script if possible. [It may not BE possible: xauth may
not be called directly. In that case, I think the best option is to
add it onto the path in the vncserver shell script: something like
PATH=${PATH}:/usr/X11R6/bin; export PATH
should do it.]
The reason that .profile doesn't help is that those are only sourced
when root starts an interactive shell, which a shell script obviously
does not.
Good luck.
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