General :: Sudo Path Variable Error
May 28, 2010
I'm having a strange issue with the PATH variable when running the command 'sudo su'. When executing this command the PATH variable changes. No problems there, but it changes to:
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Looking at this, there are two weird entries (//sbin and //bin) which should both start '/usr' instead. I'm not sure how I've managed to change this, or how a piece of software I'm using has done it (more likely it was me I expect), but could anyone suggest which file to look in to correct it? If it makes a difference the machine is running CentOS 5.
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Aug 3, 2010
I've installed rubygems on ubuntu, but it has a known issue that the rubygems' bin/ directory is not in the PATH. I know about exporting the PATH variable, and adding it to .bashrc, but I'd like to configure it so that every user has it on his PATH, even if he tries to run it with sudo. Where should I export the PATH variable then?
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Apr 26, 2011
Experimenting with shell variables, accidentally deleted the path variable how could I return to the original path value. What kinds of problems will I have if I don't have a path variable.
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Jan 14, 2010
By mistake I have modified the PATH variable you know what a kind of mess it is.
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echo $PATH
I just need to set the path variable again so I just need the format. Or can anybody come up with how to set the path variable.
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Oct 21, 2010
how to add a path to PATH variable permanently so that it remains persisent even after closing shell and rebooting the system when i added a path, to variable it remained there as long as i didn't closed the shell. but when i reopened it ,changed were undone.
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Mar 12, 2011
I was changing my sudoers file to give permission of using "sudo" command to all root commands, asking for the password. It works, it's fine. The problem I'm having is with the variable PATH to my user, I think.
In terminal:
normal user:
Code:
ataias@ataias-notebook:~/Downloads$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin
super user:
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root@ataias-notebook:~# echo $PATH
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin
As many commands are in /sbin/, root can use them without writing "/sbin/" but I can't do the same cause it's not in my path.
while root do this:
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shutdown -h now
I should do:
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sudo /sbin/shutdown -h now
and I want to use only
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sudo shutdown -h now
I want to change my user's path variable to make it equal to root's path. how to change it? I don't know many things of shell still.
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Oct 16, 2010
I want to add my current working directory to the PATH variable and make it permanant in my .bash_profile so I can run my testscript without using the ./ charactors.can this be done?
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Jan 22, 2010
One of my colleague ran into trouble with setting up of path variable.
Earlier the entry for PATH in /etc/profile was:
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Now what he mistake is:
He added a new Lines at the end as
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Now due to this he is unable to run commmands now because that has overwritten the earlier PATH varaible.
If he types now:
It shows:
Code:
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Apr 25, 2011
set the PATH environment variable?
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Jan 22, 2011
If I try "shutdown" as a normal user on Debian it give the "command not found" error. OK it's not in my PATH. But if I "sudo shutdown" it works. Somehow sudo seems to change my PATH.
Do the same in Slackware however and sudo makes no difference, I get "command not found" each time.
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Apr 19, 2009
I am trying to figure out how i can add the path /usr/sbin/ into the $PATH variable. I want this to be used from the normal account. I am bored settinh this manualy each time my computer starts.
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Jan 30, 2010
What steps have to be followed for having customized contents of PATH environment variable whenever new users are created? I require this in order to include a special directory into PATH variable; and this has to be a default one for all the newly created users.
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Oct 1, 2010
I have downloaded java and installed it with chmod +x and then ./bin package.
Hereunder is an output from CLI (putty)
I understand that the system knows the java is in a wrong place but if I do java -version it finds it correctly. I don't know and I don't understand how do I need to tell the OS that the java is somewhere else, I just did that with export java home and java path but still dosen't work, it keep tells when I do whereis java "java: /usr/share/java"
Here is another output:
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Jan 21, 2010
In short: how to make sudo not to flush PATH everytime?
I have some websites deployed on my server (Debian testing) written with Ruby on Rails. I use Mongrel+Nginx to host them, but there is one problem that comes when I need to restart Mongrel (e.g. after making some changes).
All sites are checked in VCS (git, but it is not important) and have owner and group set to my user, whereas Mongrel runs under the, huh, mongrel user that is severely restricted in it's rights. So Mongrel must be started under root (it can automatically change UID) or mongrel.
To manage mongrel I use mongrel_cluster gem because it allows starting or stopping any amount of Mongrel servers with just one command. But it needs the directory /var/lib/gems/1.8/bin to be in PATH: this is not enough to start it with absolute path.
Modifying PATH in root .bashrc changed nothing, tweaking sudo's env_reset and env_keep didn't either.
So the question: how to add a directory to PATH or keep user's PATH in sudo?
Update: some examples
$ env | grep PATH
PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games:/var/lib/gems/1.8/bin
$ sudo cat /etc/sudoers | egrep -v '^$|^#'
Defaults env_keep = "PATH"
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Aug 3, 2011
I am using CentOS5.5 & everytime it is showing command not found. If I export the path as below it will be working fine until a reboot. Again same error i.e command not found if I open new terminal. Every time I am exporting as below:
#export PATH=/sbin/:$PATH
#export PATH=/usr/sbin/:$PATH
#export PATH=/usr/bin/:$PATH
#export PATH=/bin/:$PATH
How can I set these permanently as that the paths should automatically be exported for everyone user whenever the system boots. And command completion also should happen for eg. #fdi (press tab), then it should show available options such as fdisk, etc.
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Feb 18, 2011
I installed java in my pc by running the following on the shell
./jdk-6u24-linux-i586.
I need to set the path to the bin directory and also a new environmental variable JAVA_HOME.
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Sep 5, 2010
I have bash. I installed Qt libs and want to set environmental variable PATH, I tried some stuff from qt tutorials..
Here is what i tried:
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and it does nothing so i tried
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then checked path
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Now there are two issues
1) the make gives error that header not found( probably make don't have the path)
2) when i closed the terminal and opened it again the PATH I newly entered was not there !
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Jan 19, 2011
I modified files in several directories, and need to run a diff on the backup I created before modifying the file.
I'm trying to compose a simple shell script to speed up the task, but getting a syntax error.
Here is what I have:
for i in DIR1 DIR2 DIR3 DIR4 DIR5 do;
diff /maindir/subdir/subdir/$i/filename.txt.old /maindir/subdir/subdir/$i/filename.txt;
done
I know the paths are valid, and if I run just the diff command with the actual DIR1 instead of $i it works.
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Oct 20, 2010
I have just installed Ubuntu onto my machine and my question is if it automatically comes with the PATH environment variable?If so, how do I add something such as python.exe to the PATH environment variable?
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Jul 29, 2011
I need to set PATH environment variables so they will be set every tie I startup ubuntu. Is there a startup script that will do this, and where is it located?
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Dec 8, 2009
I didn't find this question in the FAQ or through the Search button.I added a server application and would like to update the PATH env't variable so that I don't have to type the full path for its binaries. I'd like to make sure I do it right: Do I just need to edit /etc/profile or is there another file somewhere in CentOS that I should use instead?
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May 19, 2015
I have been trying to change my PATH environment variable to no avail. I am using Jessie i386 with MATE. Using my .bashrc file works but not well because with subshells the modifications get repeated. I want the change to occur on login.
I tried modifying ~/.profile ~/.bash_profile /etc/profile and /etc/environment and one or two others but in no case did my change get picked up even after logging out and in again and even after rebooting. I searched the Internet and found each of the above places to make the change but they don't seem to work with Jessie.
Where do I make the necessary change?
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Mar 16, 2010
I want to add a path (/usr/sys) to the global $PATH. I will use this to test commands and scripts, which I don't want to be mixed up with regular commands. I've added the path to /etc/environment. When I start a terminal session under my user account, the path is included in the $PATH variable. However, when I start a root terminal, it is not. Is there a way to to change $PATH on one place where it will also affect the root terminal, or do I have to change it on 2 locations?
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Mar 15, 2010
Originally Posted by Gekitsuu you should be able to do NEWSTRING=$STRING1$STRING2 it works but i can't use it for creating a path variable / file name.
e.g.
$STRING1 = path
$STRING2 = filename
cat $STRING1$STRING2 will not work.
so how to get this working?
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Dec 20, 2010
I tried to install JRE to my remote Suse 11 SP1 linux.After i finished with files i typed like
export PATH=<my jre path>
now i have no bash commands - typing ls causes
-bash: ls: command not found
i think that i should re-export my PATH to the right value but i don't know what it should be. I tried differend values
/etc/profile
/usr/bin
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Jan 25, 2010
Looking to add lines to these files that echos date/time pwd and who am I to a log file so I can see if they ever get altered.
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Apr 17, 2009
I'm trying to pass a path as a string to an array, but its evaluating it as a command instead. I want to take the literal string "/mnt/accounts/user/temp/*.jpg" and assign it to an array{1}, but when i echo the array variable, it displays it as
pic1.jpg
pic2.jpg
pic3.jpg
[code]....
I just want it to be the actual text "/mnt/accounts/user/temp/*.jpg" which i will be combining with other text to create a longer path elsewhere in the code.
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Mar 2, 2010
I have a script that backs up my computer that must be run like this:
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sudo /home/bjorn/script.sh
However, I need to be able to change the ip it backs up to. I used to do this by rewriting the script when the ip changed, but I now have like 10 different scripts. So, it would be nice to be able to set a variable and then run my script. I used $bkup_ip in the place of all the old ip s in the script. However, it seems like if I set the variable with export, and then run the script with sudo the variable is empty. How can I set the variable so that it is available for the script?
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Jan 18, 2011
Some idiot (namely me) managed to overwrite the default $PATH variable for a Debian box of mine. I think I've successfully recreated it:
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Nov 13, 2010
I'm trying to install Go (programming language):
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The installation was OK, but I can't find where the PATH variable is set for 10.10 netbook remix.
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~$ echo $PATH
gives:
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/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
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