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From: jtc@tessera.UUCP (J.T. Conklin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Xenix/286 UUXQT/L.cmds problem
Message-ID: <1125@tessera.UUCP>
Date: 28 Feb 89 05:55:27 GMT
Reply-To: jtc@tessera.UUCP (J.T. Conklin)
Organization: Tesseract Software Laboratories, Burnaby, B.C.
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System	: SCO Xenix/286 2.2.1
Bug	: PATH in uuxqt is hardcoded to /bin:/usr/bin

The system administrator of a site I "co-administer" news on, decided to
move all non-SCO packages to his /usr/local filesystem.

But when I installed news in its new home, uuxqt refused to execute rnews.
I tried two different L.cmds files:

    PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
    rnews
    rmail

    /usr/local/bin/rnews
    rmail

When niether of the L.cmds setups worked, I took a string dump of uuxqt.
It looks as if PATH is hardcoded.

Although I got news running by copying rnews to /usr/bin/rnews, I would
like to know if SCO is planning a HDB UUCP upgrade for '286 machines?

    --jtc

-- 
J.T. Conklin
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