Stange situation

[Filosofo]

Hello boys,
I have a strange problem.
I have two identical system.
There are on eny system a user call pippo.
When I connect to system A
and edit
type ksh I see like output
ksh is /bin/ksh
on system B I see:
ksh is /usr/bin/ksh
If I execute this command like root I see:
ksh is /usr/bin/ksh.
I have superdome with 11i.
Why there is this different.
Please help me.

Thanks

Filo

[Geoff Wild]

Depends on which is in the PATH first - /usr/bin or /bin

Do an
echo $PATH
on both systems to check.


Rgds...Geoff

[Massimo Bianchi]

If you want to modify the lookup for PATH, check the following files (they are source in this order)

- /etc/PATH
- /etc/profile
- yourhome/.profile

HTH,
Massimo

[Rainer von Bongartz]

Take care that you have identical files

/etc/PATH

on both boxes.

And see that no PATH statement is in /etc/profile and ~./.profile

Regards
Rainer

[Filosofo]

Thanks for help,
I see output of echo $PATH and on one of the two there is :/bin .
The .profile files are equal, the etc/PATH = , How can find where is set the PATH variable, if possible?

Thanks

Filo

[Vicente Sanchez_3]

Hello,

Have you checked /etc/profile?

HTH, Vicente.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Filo:

If you examine '/etc/profile' you will see that it builds the PATH variable from the global '/etc/PATH' specification.

The MANPATH is build in similar fashion.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Filosofo]

Hello,
Yes I check /etc/profile and there isn't different, there isn't :/bin.

Thanks for all your help

filo

[Shannon Petry]

This will not help with your PATH problems, but give you better practices...

NEVER USE /bin/ksh, /bin/sh, /bin/csh!

BSD systems store base shells "most" of the time in /bin. This has been a practice in AIX and Solaris for quite some time. This continues with Linux.

System V stores base shells in /usr/bin. This is the case with HP-UX, Irix, SCO, and of course some Linux.

BSD sytems try very hard to conform to some of the good habits of System V. Hence, most shells if they exist now in /bin are linked to /usr/bin. Others (Solaris 9) have actually moved shells to the SysV location and linked back to the old BSD location.

Roots shell should never be changed or modified, however for best practices follow this rule.

When scripting, define the shell for any user driven script as #!/usr/bin/$SHELL. In passwd files, define all paths as /usr/bin/$SHELL. (Again DO NOT change root's shell).

Following these 2 simple rules will help you to survive in a multi-platform environment. Path for "which ksh" returning /bin or /usr/bin means alot less than something not working because it is not there.

Have fun!
Shannon

[Filosofo]

Thanks for all yours help.
In the .profile there is a command to execute another script, an into this script I view the different.

Filo

[Jean-Louis Phelix]

Hi,

Did you look at .dtprofile if you log on using CDE ?

Regards