Bugs item #612692, was opened at 2002-09-21 20:08
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Category: Installation
Group: 2.3
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 7
Submitted By: Jeff Squyres (jsquyres)
Assigned to: Thomas Naughton (naughtont)
>Summary: Mandrake .basrhc (etc) fix rmss /sbin from $PATH

Initial Comment:
The fix for MDK's broken root dot files removes /sbin
and /usr/sbin from the root $PATH.  This is not
techincally a problem for OSCAR, but we should probably
be a little more clever instead of just blindly
commenting out the PATH-overriding statement.  Perhaps
something like the following:

- get the list of dirs that the PATH-overriding
statement sets (call it set A)
- comment out the PATH-overriding statement
- do a test that initiates a new shell and see what the
resulting PATH is (call it set B)
- figure out what directories are in A that are not in B
- add a PATH-appending statement back to the dotfiles
that appends (A-B) directories to the PATH

Or something along those lines.

This is a bit more trouble, but will (hypothetically)
work for any distro, any version of dot files, any set
of directories that "should" be in the PATH (as
determined by the distro authors' original PATH
statement in root's dot files).

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Comment By: Jason Brechin (brechin)
Date: 2003-03-06 16:09

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Actually I believe I've had problems with OSCAR on MDK 
because of this...

There are numerous calls to things in /sbin (like ifconfig and 
service and chkconfig) that are called without full paths.

I think this should be fixed by putting the paths back in 
$PATH.

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