Bug#36151: Clearing out old policy proposals

2001-06-28 Thread Steve Greenland
On 27-Jun-01, 07:09 (CDT), Julian Gilbey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Agreed. So should we close this bug report? Yes, please. Steve -- Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#36151: Clearing out old policy proposals

2001-06-25 Thread Alexander Koch
On Mon, 25 June 2001 08:41:09 +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: Please see the original proposal: the problem was precisely that there were situations where these directories were not in the PATH and this broke the scripts. Only because the user's system was misconfigured... Let's go for

Bug#36151: Clearing out old policy proposals

2001-06-25 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 08:41:09AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: Julian Gilbey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 09:08:10AM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: I'd really like to see the list expanded to include /sbin and /usr/sbin as well. My rationale is that init.d scripts are

Bug#36151: Clearing out old policy proposals

2001-06-25 Thread Herbert Xu
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 09:26:20AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: misconfigured, then that solves his problem. Does the general suggestion retain much value, though? Personally I don't see why a root user should have a PATH that does not contain sbin and /usr/sbin. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is

Bug#36151: Clearing out old policy proposals

2001-06-24 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 09:08:10AM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: On 21-Jun-01, 17:33 (CDT), Julian Gilbey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scripts which use programs in a directory other than /usr/bin and /bin (and /usr/bin/X11?) should append that directory to the PATH I'd really like to see the

Bug#36151: Clearing out old policy proposals

2001-06-24 Thread Steve Greenland
On 23-Jun-01, 17:36 (CDT), Julian Gilbey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 09:08:10AM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: On 21-Jun-01, 17:33 (CDT), Julian Gilbey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scripts which use programs in a directory other than /usr/bin and /bin (and /usr/bin/X11?)

Bug#36151: Clearing out old policy proposals

2001-06-24 Thread Herbert Xu
Julian Gilbey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 09:08:10AM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: I'd really like to see the list expanded to include /sbin and /usr/sbin as well. My rationale is that init.d scripts are intended (and mostly Please see the original proposal: the problem

Bug#36151: Clearing out old policy proposals

2001-06-22 Thread Steve Greenland
On 21-Jun-01, 17:33 (CDT), Julian Gilbey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scripts which use programs in a directory other than /usr/bin and /bin (and /usr/bin/X11?) should append that directory to the PATH I'd really like to see the list expanded to include /sbin and /usr/sbin as well. My rationale is

Bug#36151: Clearing out old policy proposals

2001-06-22 Thread Herbert Xu
Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd really like to see the list expanded to include /sbin and /usr/sbin as well. My rationale is that init.d scripts are intended (and mostly only useful) for the root user, and the the whole point of /sbin and /usr/sbin is to contain scripts useful

Bug#36151: Clearing out old policy proposals

2001-06-21 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 07:44:59AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bug #36151: etc/init.d scripts should specify an explicit PATH Summary: init.d scripts shouldn't depend on having PATH set in a useful manner -- they should explicitly set the PATH. Not

Bug#36151: Clearing out old policy proposals

2001-06-20 Thread Herbert Xu
Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bug #36151: etc/init.d scripts should specify an explicit PATH Summary: init.d scripts shouldn't depend on having PATH set in a useful manner -- they should explicitly set the PATH. Not much discussion in the bug logs, and most of the