no, in general /usr/sbin is supposed to come before /usr/bin and any software assuming the opposite has a bug
look what binaries are in /usr/sbin and then you know you really don't want in general a bad package override them with place a binary with the same name in /usr/bin Am 04.05.2014 18:11, schrieb Ankur Sinha: > Recently, the value of my PATH variable seems to be messed up: > > >> [asinha@ankur-laptop ~]$ echo $PATH >> /usr/lib64/ccache:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/home/asinha/.local/bin:/home/asinha/bin > > /usr/bin is supposed to come before /usr/sbin etc. This makes mock throw > an error: > > >> mock -r fedora-rawhide-x86_64 rebuild >> ./python-taskreport-1.2.1-1.fc20.src.rpm >> >> ERROR: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted >> >> ERROR: The most common cause for this error is trying to run /usr/sbin/mock >> as an unprivileged user. >> ERROR: Check your path to make sure that /usr/bin/ is listed before >> /usr/sbin, or manually run /usr/bin/mock to see if that fixes this problem. > > Running /usr/bin/mock.. works, of course. I've checked the relevant > places, and everything seems to be in order. The EUID of my user is 1000 > too, so there isn't a reason that /etc/profile should place the > directories incorrectly. Would anyone have an hints on correcting this? > There's nothing in my user's .bash_profile or .bashrc that modifies path > either. > > I use byobu with a tmux backend, but I don't think that matters. I > opened a separate gnome-terminal without byobu and the EUID is correct > there too. > >> [asinha@ankur-laptop ~]$ id asinha >> uid=1000(asinha) gid=1000(asinha) groups=1000(asinha),10(wheel),135(mock)
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