[ On Monday, September 15, 2003 at 14:10:16 (-0700), Greywolf wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: /etc/rc.d scripts and $PATH 
>
> More to the point, don't have commands with names which conflict with
> utilities in the base system. :-)

that helps too!

> [I end up prepending /usr/src/tools/tools-${ARCH}/bin: to my $PATH
> when I run build stuff; but I have it set up so that when I do su,
> it resets PATH to include the Four True Base Directories at the front
> initially, followed by whatever else seems necessary at the time.]

After worrying more than once that my own account might get trojaned in
some way I might not notice so easily I've modified my copy of 'su' so
that it never preserves any environment and I've re-learned how to type
". /root/.profile" after every time I 'su'.  :-)

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