user $PATH problem

2006-04-05 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; I've been trying to help Anne Wilson setup a working amanda system at her place for over a week now, and having all sorts of troubles that were triggered by the amanda executables not being in the user amanda's environmental path when she actually logs in as amanda, as opposed to

Re: user $PATH problem

2006-04-05 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 10:20:59AM -0400, Gene Heskett enlightened us: When doing it as amanda, with amanda's full $PATH, /usr/local/sbin, where all of amanda's executables live, is NOT in the $PATH. Adding it to ~/.bash_profile seems to allow it to survive the pathmunge'ing being done in

Re: user $PATH problem

2006-04-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 05 April 2006 11:18, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 10:20:59AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings; I've been trying to help Anne Wilson setup a working amanda system at her place for over a week now, and having all sorts of troubles that were triggered by the amanda

Re: user $PATH problem

2006-04-05 Thread Frank Smith
Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 05 April 2006 11:18, Jon LaBadie wrote: anything/sbin is supposed to contain programs of interest to systems accounts, not to ordinary users. Thus they would not be in an ordinary users PATH by default because those users would not look to execute them. So

Re: user $PATH problem

2006-04-05 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 02:54:22PM -0500, Frank Smith wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 05 April 2006 11:18, Jon LaBadie wrote: anything/sbin is supposed to contain programs of interest to systems accounts, not to ordinary users. Thus they would not be in an ordinary users PATH by