Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 06:01:51 +0000 From: Frank Shute <frank@shute.org.uk> To: Andy Smith <a.smith@ukgrid.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PATH used by www user Message-ID: <20090119060151.GA47488@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20090118154724.780736hzlg7x77k0@horde.ukgrid.net> References: <20090118154724.780736hzlg7x77k0@horde.ukgrid.net>
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On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 03:47:24PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm trying to work out why the PATH is different for the www user > on two different FreeBSD servers. The problem being that on one it > cant find the traceroute binary (via a perl script hosted on apache > 2.2). The www user on both is the FreeBSD default, so has no home > directory on either. The /etc/profile is the same on both servers, > also the login.conf have the same path value set and there are no > /etc/bash files. But still on one server the path is > /sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin > and on the other only /bin:/usr/bin. > > Can someone tell me where the path may be being set that I havent looked? > User www doesn't have a shell, profile & hence PATH. I don't know how your path is being set but it depends on perl & how your script looks. Look at Env(3) & the other perldocs. If you want to do it quick, call traceroute with the path in your scripts e.g: system "/usr/sbin/traceroute $some_host"; There's probably a perl module with a "traceroute" in it but I'm afraid I don't know it offhand. Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html
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