Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 14:27:57 -0600 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@atkielski.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is root's search path special? Message-ID: <15349.30413.867238.510518@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <44732167@toto.iv>
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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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