Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problem with modifying PATH with a file in env.d

[Miika Linnapuomi]

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 08:58:07 +0200
Marc Blumentritt <marc.blumentritt@×××××.de> wrote:

> I just stumbled about something new:
>
> marc@hive ~ $ echo $PATH
> /usr/local/sbin/:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.1.2:
> /opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2.17/bin:/opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2.17/jre/bin:/opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2.17/jre/javaws:
> /usr/kde/3.5/bin:/usr/qt/3/bin:/usr/games/bin:/bblinks
> marc@hive ~ $ sudo -i
> hive ~ # echo $PATH
> /root/tools:/usr/lib/ccache/bin:/usr/lib/distcc/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:
> /usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.1.2:/opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2.17/bin:
> /opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2.17/jre/bin:/opt/sun-jdk-1.4.2.17/jre/javaws:/usr/kde/3.5/sbin:/usr/kde/3.5/bin:/usr/qt/3/bin
>
> My standard user (marc) has now /bblinks in his PATH, but not root?
> Any idea why this is happens?
>
> Marc
>

If you look in /etc/profile, you will see that root path is set to
$ROOTPATH, not $PATH, so root gets */sbin. To get /bblinks for root
too, add ROOTPATH="/bblinks"

Hope that helps

Miika