Subject: Re: /etc/rc.d scripts and $PATH
To: NetBSD-current Discussion List <current-users@NetBSD.org>
From: Eric Haszlakiewicz <erh@nimenees.com>
List: current-users
Date: 09/15/2003 16:15:24
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 05:01:11PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> The point I was trying hard _not_ to make explicilty was that /usr might
> not be mounted when any given rc.d script ran.
>
> In this case I'd say your root environment shouldn't include private
> paths to bin directories containing non-standard commands. ;-)
yes, good idea. There's absolutely no reason for root to use anything
from pkgsrc, much less /usr/local or some other place you might have installed
something that didn't come with the base system.
eric