some oddities with fsck and boot -s

Matthew Dillon dillon at apollo.backplane.com
Sat Dec 3 10:27:46 PST 2005


:On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 09:15:12AM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote:
:> :another thing is sh's default PATH (just /bin and /usr/bin) after
:> :booting to single user mode via boot -s; can we add /sbin and /usr/sbin?
:> 
:>     I'll fix the /bin/sh path problem right now.  That's always bothered 
:>     me.
:
:I saw this every time going into single user mode via `shutdown now'.
:IIRC, this started only recently, because I've never had to adjust $PATH
:to use, for example, fsck.  What happened to the default $PATH for single
:user mode?

    That's probably a different path.  If it still occurs now then its a
    path inherited from the init process rather then the default path when
    no PATH environment exists.  The boot -s issue was simply /bin/sh being
    run without a PATH environment at all and getting an internal default.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon at xxxxxxxxxxxxx>





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