Are you sure that all the settings in your passwd file are correct? This
sounds to me sort of like the "root" uid or username got lost somewhere.
Also, check /etc/profile or /etc/login.defs (??) to make sure that all the
initialization stuff (shell vars) is set correctly.
Matt
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On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Rusty Brooks wrote:
> It's worse than I desceribed in my previous message: most programs in
> /usr/sbin cannot be run (including atrun and atd!!) so I am getting
> thousands of emails about it. Also, my path seems funny:
> I set my path to something like
> PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/scripts:/usr/games
> etc, but this comes out as
> :/usr/local/scripts:/usr/games
> meaning there was no "default" path set up for root. (these paths are set
> in /etc/profile). Why would there be no inital path? (there always was
> before)
>
> Any ideas?
>
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