Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 23:11:29 +0100 From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@atkielski.com> To: "Mike Meyer" <mwm@mired.org>, <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Is root's search path special? Message-ID: <00c601c16eeb$a8607c30$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <15349.30413.867238.510518@guru.mired.org>
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Myprogram was an example, but the real-world case where I found this was with the text editor joe, which is an executable file. It's in /usr/local/bin, and /usr/local/bin is in my path, even under root, and yet the shell can't seem to find it when I am logged in as root, but it finds it when I'm logged in as a normal user. All the environment variables look pretty much the same, so I was thinking that there must be something weird about root, but I didn't know where to look to find out for sure. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Meyer" <mwm@mired.org> To: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@atkielski.com> Cc: <questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 21:27 Subject: Re: Is root's search path special? > Anthony Atkielski <anthony@atkielski.com> types: > > Why is it that when I try > > > > % myprogram > > > > it will run under an ordinary user login, but cannot be found under a root > > login? The program myprogram is in /usr/local/bin, and /usr/local/bin appears > > in the PATH for both the user and the root login. Why doesn't it work under > > root? Is there something special about the way root executes things? > > Is myprogram by any chance a script? There's a bug - I claim it's in > the kernel, but the committers claim that it's in csh - that causes a > bad interpreter on the "#!" line in a script to cause the program to > be reported as "not found" by csh. > > If it is a script, you might verify that the #! line refers to the > interpreter by the full path. > > <mike > -- > Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ > Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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