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From: seb@erix.ericsson.se (Sebastian Strollo)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: NetBSD on sparc - problems
Date: 21 Dec 1995 12:04:40 +0100
Organization: Ericsson Telecom Systems Labs, Stockholm, Sweden
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In-reply-to: patton@sysnet.net's message of 20 Dec 1995 03:06:11 GMT
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In article <4b7uj3$d86@unix2.sysnet.net>
patton@sysnet.net (Matthew Patton) writes:
...
>
> 2) Why is chown in /usr/sbin??? In installing Xfree86 for sparc (ie x11r6) I
> couldn't get xdm to work till I noticed it couldn't chown /dev/console. And
> /usr/sbin wasn't in xdm's environment path.
> BTW, how does one determine the state of the path
> for processes that start from rc.local?
I was just runing into this up myself. The /etc/rc script sets the
path in the begining of the script, processes started from rc/rc.local
will get this path. xdm however sets its path itself, the default
being something like "/etc:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/ucb" (see
xdm(1), resource .systemPath). So I solved the problem by adding
something like this in the xdm-config file:
DisplayManager*systemPath: /bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin
Displaymanager*userPath: /bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
regards,
/Sebastian