etc-update gone?

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ryan83vt · Post by **ryan83vt** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 10:02 pm

Recently etc-update has disappeared. Is it in a particular portage package that I should reinstall?

localhost ryan # etc-update
bash: etc-update: command not found

Genone · Post by **Genone** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 10:11 pm

Nope, it's still part of sys-apps/portage. It should be at /usr/sbin/etc-update

jtaylor72 · Post by **jtaylor72** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 10:11 pm

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localhost ~ # equery belongs etc-update
[ Searching for file(s) etc-update in *... ]
sys-apps/portage-2.1.1-r2 (/usr/sbin/etc-update -> ../lib/portage/bin/etc-update)
sys-apps/portage-2.1.1-r2 (/usr/lib/portage/bin/etc-update)

timeBandit · Post by **timeBandit** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 10:20 pm

Check your PATH, maybe /usr/sbin was accidentally removed from it?

ryan83vt · Post by **ryan83vt** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 10:35 pm

yea, deleted from the path somehow. For some reason I can't think of where the path is set, as root has no ~/.bashrc or anything similar. The path was set to:
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin

But for now I have it set using just
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/sbin

jtaylor72 wrote: equery belongs etc-update

I'll have to remember that one.

timeBandit · Post by **timeBandit** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 11:22 pm

ryan83vt wrote:yea, deleted from the path somehow. For some reason I can't think of where the path is set, as root has no ~/.bashrc or anything similar. The path was set to:
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin

PATH is set in /etc/profile using a few hard-coded locations plus those set in /etc/env.d/* by various packages. The path you had is the bare path for a normal user (the hard-coded dirs only), not for root.

Did you login as root, or use su to become root? If the latter, I'll wager you typed su instead of su - and root's environment didn't get set.