From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mga03.intel.com ([143.182.124.21]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1S79ZH-0005cD-S6 for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 19:02:00 +0100 Received: from azsmga001.ch.intel.com ([10.2.17.19]) by azsmga101.ch.intel.com with ESMTP; 12 Mar 2012 10:53:15 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.71,315,1320652800"; d="scan'208";a="117858176" Received: from unknown (HELO helios.localnet) ([10.252.123.166]) by azsmga001.ch.intel.com with ESMTP; 12 Mar 2012 10:53:12 -0700 From: Paul Eggleton To: Khem Raj Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:53:11 +0000 Message-ID: <1532562.QfbElkX6OP@helios> Organization: Intel Corporation User-Agent: KMail/4.8.0 (Linux/3.0.0-16-generic-pae; KDE/4.8.1; i686; ; ) In-Reply-To: <4F56C49C.4000504@gmail.com> References: <50d2b32b6d5367e5822c396d28a78ea54cb4ea40.1331078069.git.paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com> <4F56C49C.4000504@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] formfactor: use full path to fbset X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:02:00 -0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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