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Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 09:51:33 +0200
From: Thomas Fiebig <tfie@lrs.eei.uni-erlangen.de>
Organization: Institute for Computer Aided Circuit Design
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Subject: Which PATH is set for daemons?
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Hello,

my question concerns the path settings for daemons like lpd, if started from 
rc.conf with lpd_enable="YES".

I have inserted a driver in /etc/printcap that uses a script installed by 
ghostscript. This script located in /usr/local/bin itself uses gs without an 
explicite path (/usr/local/bin/gs). Now starting anything to print with this 
driver results in an lpd error message 'gs: not found'. Stopping lpd and 
starting it as root from a terminal seems to work (but don't know exactly!). So 
my question is: For daemons started in rc.conf (like lpd) which path do they see 
during startup?

Thanks,
Thomas

BTW: My /.profile (or /.cshrc) contents the /usr/local/bin path!