I'm attempting to add a directory to PATH so it's available when I sudo. (I do not want to sudo -i), but it's not behaving as I expect.I've added a line to add the directory to PATH in all of these files:
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/etc/environment
/etc/bash.bashrc
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I have a program that takes a relative path as input appends it to a some path string to get the actual path.
Now all I can input is the relative path. So if I want to go one level above my input will be ../mypath.
If I know the depth of the path used internally, I can use .. as many times to go to the root directory and then give the absolute path. But suppose I do not know the depth of the directory, can I construct a relative path string such that it considers it as a relative path. One way could be to have enough .. in the path string so that I can force an absolute path for some maximum depth of path.
Is there some path string syntax that I am not aware of but can achieve this?
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.
On my Ubuntu server I'm running into an issue that I've never seen before even though I've been using Linux for many years. Basically sudo is not finding a command located in my path. Here is a transcript illustrating the problem.
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prg ~: echo $PATH
/opt/ruby/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
prg ~: sudo echo $PATH
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When I try to run almost any command with sudo, it returns sudo: command: command not found. When I run sudo echo $path, it returns a blank line. Is there a command to set its path back to the default?
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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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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.
I'm looking to allow sudo for openvpn for a user.
I cannot find the openvpn program path though, i try a 'which openvpn' command and it returns nothing! :S
What is the path? or how to allow a normal user account to run openvpn with sudo?
Solution found:
Working directories for openvpn on debian 8 are:
/etc/openvpn
/usr/sbin/openvpn
To add sudo capability to a guest account, run this with your admin account:
Code: Select allsudo visudo
then add the line, with your guest username substituted:
Code: Select allusername ALL=/etc/openvpn, /usr/sbin/openvpn
tada! guest account now runs only openvpn.
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I use this command:
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find ./ -atime +360
to figure out the files that haven't been accessed since 360 days. The command above will return results like this:
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/uploads/2010/02/some-file-name.ext
/uploads/2009/08/another-file-name.ext
... etc
I'm taking here about tins of directories, thousands of files. I'm looking to find a command that makes me able to move the results above to another path, and to create that path once it doesn't exist like below:
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mv /uploads/2010/02/some-file-name.ext /old-files/uploads/2010/02/some-file-name.ext
But I want the executed command to create this path
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/old-files/uploads/2010/02/
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My questions:
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ldd /usr/bin/passwd
and
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I know rsync generates a lot of questions, but I have not found an answer to this one about whether the archive option (rsync -a) ever misbehaves. I am transferring data from field instruments running Debian etch to a central server running Debian lenny. My command is below:
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rsync -av --remove-source-files --log-file=rsync_20110612_0656Z.log ./20100616/ archive@bigserver:/mnt/ZAP_DATA/20100616/zap2/
After rsync runs, the directories it touches on bigserver have very strange permissions
as follows:
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d-wxrw--wt 2 root root 4.0K 2010-10-26 04:31 20101026
This says that directory 20100226 can be written by anybody, but can't even be read by its owner! I thought rsync was messing things up, but in the process of writing this question I discovered that the original files that I am trying to sync have these crazy permissions. So I no longer have a question, but if future LQers think that rsync -a is messing up their permissions, this post may confirm that it is merely copying their messed up permissions from somewhere else, as it is supposed to do!
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