Re: root PATH clobbered -- where do I fix it?
On 8 Dec 1996, Rob Browning wrote:
>
> I was installing a system from scratch, and I had installed a few
> packages (with dpkg). I logged out for a minute, and logged back in
> (from the console) as root. The next time I tried to launch dpkg, it
> failed because root's path had changed to be the same as a normal
> users, i.e. not including sbin and usr/sbin. It appears to be a
> permanent change, persisting even across reboots.
>
> Does anyone know how this might have happened, and/or how I might fix
> it? It's not root's .bashrc. I checked; it's empty. Where is the
> root path set? Could some package I installed have clobbered it?
>
My machine has the PATH in .bash_profile for root. Do you have such a
file?
Luck,
Dwarf
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