[15526] in Athena Bugs
Re: sparc 8.1.11: /usr/ucb precedes /usr/ccs/bin in PATH
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Mon Sep 22 17:36:37 1997
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 17:36:35 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[15520] in Athena Bugs"
> These commands in /usr/sbin are preceded by variants in ucb:
> shutdown
> I'm not sure whether it's appropriate to change this or not. Right
> now on an athena workstation you can "su" and say "shutdown -h now"
> rather than "shutdown -y -g0 -i0".
When I run "su", I get my path reset to /usr/sbin:/usr/bin. I think
jweiss's solution of moving /usr/ucb to the end of the path is best.