Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!maytag!accwai
From: accwai@maytag.waterloo.edu (Andy Wai)
Newsgroups: uw.mfcf.software,uw.mfcf.bugs
Subject: Re: rdist; when should it set $PATH for special commands?
Message-ID: <399@maytag.waterloo.edu>
Date: 21 Aug 89 16:55:56 GMT
References: <28215@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: accwai@maytag.waterloo.edu (Andy Wai)
Distribution: uw
Organization: Math Faculty Computing Facility, University of Waterloo
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In article <28215@watmath.waterloo.edu> idallen@watmath.waterloo.edu writes:
>From: "Ian! D. Allen [CGL]" <idallen>
>
>rdist doesn't currently set $PATH before executing "special" commands;
>it gets its path from its parent.  The recent change to rdist to search
>PATH=/software/mfcf-basics/bin:/usr/ucb for the "rdist -Server" option has
>clobbered the default path, making "special" commands fail.  The quick
>fix is to keep $PATH on the end of the new path; the proper thing to
>do is make "rdist -Server" set its own PATH properly.

Applied the quick fix.  Remade on watmath, waiting for distribution.
All other architectures remade and distributed.

Andy