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From: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>
To: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] formfactor: use full path to fbset
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:53:11 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1532562.QfbElkX6OP@helios> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F56C49C.4000504@gmail.com>

On Tuesday 06 March 2012 18:14:52 Khem Raj wrote:
> On 03/06/2012 03:55 PM, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> > When using rootless X, /usr/sbin is not in PATH and thus running "fbset"
> > will fail; so specify /usr/sbin/fbset instead.
> 
> just curious why is /usr/sbin omitted from PATH ?

With the rootless X implementation we have, you're logged in as "xuser" 
instead of root. I guess our default is to not include /sbin and /usr/sbin in 
PATH for non-root users.

Cheers,
Paul

-- 

Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre



  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-12 18:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-06 23:55 [PATCH 0/1] Formfactor fix Paul Eggleton
2012-03-06 23:55 ` [PATCH 1/1] formfactor: use full path to fbset Paul Eggleton
2012-03-07  2:14   ` Khem Raj
2012-03-12 17:53     ` Paul Eggleton [this message]
2012-03-12 19:39       ` Khem Raj
2012-03-12 17:40 ` [PATCH 0/1] Formfactor fix Saul Wold

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