[svn-rock-linux] r8321 - trunk/package/base/sysfiles

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Author: th
Date: 2007-04-09 20:12:27 +0200 (Mon, 09 Apr 2007)
New Revision: 8321
Log:

Stefan Fiedler:
	sysfiles: add */sbin directories to PATH in /etc/profile
	not only if / is writeable but also if the user is root.
	-
	If /etc/profile doesn't include /sbin dirs in PATH, many
	init scripts will fail pretty badly, but on bootup, / may not yet
	be writeable (until the localfs init script has been executed).
	-
	Generally, on bootup init calls /etc/rc.d/rc, which in turn calls
	/sbin/rc for each init script. /sbin/rc spawns a login bash
	for every script, which sources /etc/profile.
	Init exports the default PATH ("/bin:usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin")
	to all its children and thus to /etc/profile (since /sbin/rc copies it
	to the bash environment). /etc/profile just resets the PATH - if there
	is no /etc/profile, the init scripts will use the default PATH.

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  svn diff -r 8320:8321 http://www.rocklinux.net/svn/rock-linux

Modified:
   trunk/package/base/sysfiles/etc_profile.txt