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Belthezar
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 Posted: Mon Jun 03, 2002 5:30 pm Post subject: fix for "/sbin/runscript.sh: start-stop-daemon" un |
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This is in relation to another thread where people were having some error messages stating:
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# /etc/init.d/samba start
* Starting samba...
/sbin/runscript.sh: start-stop-daemon: command not found
/sbin/runscript.sh: start-stop-daemon: command not found [ !! ]
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I have tracked this down to a problem of SU not having a very filled out path env variable. Mine currently only has /bin and /usr/bin
So the solution according to "man su" is to add ENV_SUPATH to the file /etc/login.defs I have done this, basically copying the ENV_ROOT variable. After this fix I am able to stop and start services while under SU. 
I'm not sure what the security reasons were that caused Gentoo to set SU path by default to such a restrictive setting, so take that into account when putting this fix into place. Maybe someone out there can enlighten us as to what risks this might pose? |
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lx
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You can also use the following and change nothing.
the - is to setup the environment normally for given user.
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