[mythtv-users] LIRC help

[Michael T. Dean]

Jay R. Ashworth wrote:

>On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 11:06:48PM -0700, Shawn Asmussen wrote:
>  
>
>>>On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:14:33 -0500, aslong at uark.edu <aslong at uark.edu>
>>>wrote:
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>>>
>>>>[root at localhost mythtv]# lsmod |grep lirc
>>>>bash: lsmod: command not found
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>lsmod lives in /sbin, so it'd be
>>># /sbin/lsmod | grep lirc
>>>
>>>Odd that /sbin isn't in root's PATH.  Is that a Fedora thing?
>>>      
>>>
>>The most likely explaination is that he became the root user using the su
>>command and did not use the "-" to make the shell a login shell. In that
>>case, his path still be the same as the path of the user who he originally
>>logged in as, which probably would not have /sbin included.
>>    
>>
>
>I only wish that were true; in SuSE 9.x, it's not: su rewrites the
>path no matter how you call it, and I can't figure out where: I'm about
>to grovel in the source.
>
>Cheers,
>-- jra
>  
>
man su

       The current environment is passed to the new shell.  The value of 
$PATH
       is     reset     to     /bin:/usr/bin     for    normal    
users,    or
       /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin for the super user.  This may be  
changed
       with the ENV_PATH and ENV_SUPATH definitions in /etc/login.defs.

Mike