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Topic: /opt/bin in root's PATH, For ucis

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roberts

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Posted: Oct. 29 2006,16:26

Correct. For liveCD/frugal it is not a login shell.
I will adjust Root Shell from menu and Right Click Aterm Icon to give correct root PATHing in next RC.

For fluxbox menu Root Shell lines change -e sudo /bin/bash to -e sudo su -

For Aterm.lnk change MenuCommand1 from sudo aterm -cr red to aterm -cr red -e sudo su -

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Posted: Oct. 29 2006,23:40

Quote (mikshaw @ Oct. 27 2006,13:19)

another variation...
dsl@box:~$ sudo echo $PATH
/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/games:/opt/bin:.:.

Actually that doesn't give you what you think it will.
In this case.. $PATH would've been subbed in by the "dsl@box" parent shell before the line continues.

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Posted: Oct. 30 2006,02:10

yes, but you'd get the same result as if you used "sudo command" to run a command found in /opt/bin...it would still work even though /opt/bin is not in root's PATH because it uses dsl's environment.

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Posted: Oct. 30 2006,14:31

Ah, I see what you were trying to get at now.
(I had thought you were trying to output root's PATH that way)

Personally, I mostly use sudo <command> anyways, so that's probably why I never had this problem...

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Posted: Nov. 02 2006,11:24

I notice when using Robert's fix that these root shells now start using their home /root.

A good thing anyway I think, that's more standard - root's bash history is in that dir. I like the blue prompt too - hard to ignore that you have a root shell open.

Perhaps a line "root" will need to be added to filetool.lst so root's bash history gets backed up?

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