Re: problems with gnu screen within console
On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 04:04:08AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
> Arvind Marathe wrote:
> > The user (i.e. myself) launching 'startx' has no problems with screen
> > within xterm in icewm. But if i 'su' to root or any other user within
> > xterm, and try to launch screen, all the errors appear.
>
> The PATH for the other user(s) and console is not being set.
Or rather, gets explicitly overriden. PATH has a sane default of
/bin:/usr/bin at init.
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