Re: [newbie] /etc/profile and Mandrake Security

2000-06-23 Thread Paul
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

Re: [newbie] /etc/profile and Mandrake Security

2000-06-22 Thread David Talbot
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 t

Re: [newbie] /etc/profile and Mandrake Security

2000-06-22 Thread Paul
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

Re: [newbie] /etc/profile and Mandrake Security

2000-06-22 Thread David Talbot
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

Re: [newbie] /etc/profile and Mandrake Security

2000-06-22 Thread Paul
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 >

[newbie] /etc/profile and Mandrake Security

2000-06-22 Thread David Talbot
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 Securit