Re: [Sheflug] non login shells

[Simon Brown <lists@xxxxxxxx>]

At Fri, 1 Oct 2010 13:56:54 +0100,
Robin Wood wrote:
> > The box uses the ash shell, not bash and I'm struggling to add the new
> > path
> I've not got access to an ash shell to test this but have you done a
> set and an export? Old shells needed you to set the value then do the
> export as well.
> 
> Also, if you are using ~ in the path watchout as I've seen that not
> get set on some shells in the way you would expect.

Yes $HOME is set to /root no matter who logs in which is confusing.

I tried export PATH='/opt/bin:$PATH' but with no luck. 

Some poking around on google suggested setting ENV = '~/.ashrc' but I
couldn't workout where to put that. 

After a bit more mucking around I tried a magic reboot and it hasn't
come back up properly, in that it's up but will no longer let me
in. I'm pretty sure I know why though. 

The box is a 15 min drive away so I'll have another go when it's
stopped raining.

Simon

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