[Pkg-sysvinit-commits] r659 - sysvinit/trunk/debian

[Thomas Hood]

Author: jdthood-guest
Date: 2006-01-17 10:52:30 +0000 (Tue, 17 Jan 2006)
New Revision: 659

Modified:
   sysvinit/trunk/debian/NOTES
Log:
Add NOTE about PATH

Modified: sysvinit/trunk/debian/NOTES
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--- sysvinit/trunk/debian/NOTES	2006-01-17 10:43:30 UTC (rev 658)
+++ sysvinit/trunk/debian/NOTES	2006-01-17 10:52:30 UTC (rev 659)
@@ -44,6 +44,18 @@
 
 src/Makefile should not set CC.
 
+PATH
+----
+* Current policy:
+  + Leave unset if absolutely no pathless commands are run; otherwise...
+  + set to "/sbin:/bin" in /etc/init.d/rc and in scripts that run prior
+    to mountnfs.sh; otherwise...
+  + set to "/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin".
+  + Add "/lib/init" to beginning of PATH if readlink command or domount
+    function used.  This will disappear once coreutils 5.93 makes it
+    into testing, and we Depend on that.
+* Question: Should we include /usr/local/sbin and /usr/local/bin too?
+
 Don't use bash
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 umountfs should not specify #!/bin/bash, because bash loads