Initial Path - Question...

[Michael D. Setzer II]

On 4 Nov 2008 at 15:59, Bernhard Reutner-Fischer wrote:

Date sent:      	Tue, 4 Nov 2008 15:59:51 +0100
From:           	Bernhard Reutner-Fischer <rep.dot.nop at gmail.com>
To:             	"Michael D. Setzer II" <mikes at kuentos.guam.net>
Copies to:      	walter harms <wharms at bfs.de>, busybox at busybox.net
Subject:        	Re: Initial Path - Question...

> On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 11:44:27PM +1000, Michael D. Setzer II wrote:
> 
> >I've just added to the .bash_profile
> >export PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin
> >
> >That seems to work...
> 
> Let me point out that you would normally have a stanza like the one
> below in your /etc/profile if you can't live with the default.
> 
> if [ "`id -u`" -eq 0 ]; then
>   PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11"
> else
>   PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games"
> fi

No such file on the system. It is a live boot cd that was created by the previous author of the 
project. It only has the userid of g4l, which appears to be used in place of root.

There is no X11 on the system, just a text base, and it uses dialog for the text gui.

The project is a boot cd that runs from ramdisk, and creates compress disk/partition images 
on local or ftp or sshfs.


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