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

2001-06-27 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 07:09:30PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > 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 PA

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

2001-06-25 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 sc

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

2001-06-24 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: th

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 /u

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

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 usef

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

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

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 flame^H^H^H