Re: [newbie] /etc/profile and Mandrake Security
On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, David Talbot wrote: Verified :'s. I think I may have set the security level to High on this machine (usually I use medium and handle security details like open ports and daemons myself... Maybe when you tell the installer to use High security, meebe methinks it could take management of certain tasks outside of even the root domain... Anybody with any knowledge of Mandrake's High Security setting would be a godsend... I hope someone like that is here then, my knowledge ends. Otherwise you might want to try the experts list. Good luck! Paul -- If you lose money, you lose nothing. If you lose (the) honour, you lose a lot. If you lose your courage, you've lost everything. But if you lose friendship, then you've lost the world! )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
[newbie] /etc/profile and Mandrake Security
I'm working on getting a webserver set up and need to modify the path and some other enviroment variables. I set the path and insure it is exported, but when I type echo $PATH it contains nothing I added. I did notice a few curious comments in the /etc/profile such as "Handled by Mandrake Security" Anybody know what it's doing to me? -David Talbot
Re: [newbie] /etc/profile and Mandrake Security
On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, David Talbot wrote: I'm working on getting a webserver set up and need to modify the path and some other enviroment variables. I set the path and insure it is exported, but when I type echo $PATH it contains nothing I added. I did notice a few curious comments in the /etc/profile such as "Handled by Mandrake Security" Anybody know what it's doing to me? Hi David, I have had some troubles with this too, until I found out what I did wrong. Where and what exactly did you change, and what do you want to change? Make sure you do make changes BEFORE any 'export' of PATH is done, otherwise it won't work. Paul (had a GREAT vacation!) -- Creativity is limited only by your imagination. )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] /etc/profile and Mandrake Security
Checked it, I declare my PATH and CLASSPATH next to each other and export them in the same statement. It takes my classpath, but fails to take my PATH. I get /sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin: no matter what I set my path to in /etc/profile still. Any other ideas? -David Talbot At 05:25 PM 6/22/00 +0200, you wrote: On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, David Talbot wrote: I'm working on getting a webserver set up and need to modify the path and some other enviroment variables. I set the path and insure it is exported, but when I type echo $PATH it contains nothing I added. I did notice a few curious comments in the /etc/profile such as "Handled by Mandrake Security" Anybody know what it's doing to me? Hi David, I have had some troubles with this too, until I found out what I did wrong. Where and what exactly did you change, and what do you want to change? Make sure you do make changes BEFORE any 'export' of PATH is done, otherwise it won't work. Paul (had a GREAT vacation!) -- Creativity is limited only by your imagination. )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] /etc/profile and Mandrake Security
On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, David Talbot wrote: Checked it, I declare my PATH and CLASSPATH next to each other and export them in the same statement. It takes my classpath, but fails to take my PATH. I get /sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin: no matter what I set my path to in /etc/profile still. Any other ideas? Did you separate the path-additions with colons? I have seen someone putting DOS-like semi-colons in there, and that won't do much good. Otherwise first try if you can modify the $PATH in ~/.bash_profile. I have done this in there and it works: PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin: Paul -- Creativity is limited only by your imagination. )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
Re: [newbie] /etc/profile and Mandrake Security
Verified :'s. I think I may have set the security level to High on this machine (usually I use medium and handle security details like open ports and daemons myself... Maybe when you tell the installer to use High security, meebe methinks it could take management of certain tasks outside of even the root domain... Anybody with any knowledge of Mandrake's High Security setting would be a godsend... -David Talbot At 09:02 PM 6/22/00 +0200, you wrote: On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, David Talbot wrote: Checked it, I declare my PATH and CLASSPATH next to each other and export them in the same statement. It takes my classpath, but fails to take my PATH. I get /sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin: no matter what I set my path to in /etc/profile still. Any other ideas? Did you separate the path-additions with colons? I have seen someone putting DOS-like semi-colons in there, and that won't do much good. Otherwise first try if you can modify the $PATH in ~/.bash_profile. I have done this in there and it works: PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin: Paul -- Creativity is limited only by your imagination. )0([[EMAIL PROTECTED]])0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403
