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From: "Serge A. Babkin" <babkin@hq.icb.chel.su>
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Subject: strange default PATH
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Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 18:15:58 +0500 (ESK)
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I have discovered a strange fact today:

some standard commands (like chown) are moved to /usr/sbin
but login still includes only /bin and /usr/bin in PATH.
It even has no control file that allows to change the default
variables' settings like SysV /etc/default/login ! It
makes LOTS of problems if you want to run some program
using rsh, you need to write the PATH variable implicitly
in it.

Is it a feature or just a bug ?

-SB