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Operating Systems Solaris How to set path for a command Post 302270977 by vgersh99 on Tuesday 23rd of December 2008 10:52:14 AM
Old 12-23-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by saurabh84g
oracle user is not able to run ping command without full path

i have to set the path in his ./profile file???

ex: ping=/usr/sbin/ping

correct me if i m wrong?
you ARE wrong - reread reborg's post.
You need to set up the shell environment variable PATH appropriately.
 

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Wiki::Toolkit::Plugin::Ping(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation			  Wiki::Toolkit::Plugin::Ping(3pm)

NAME
Wiki::Toolkit::Plugin::Ping - "ping" various services when nodes are written SYNOPSIS
use Wiki::Toolkit::Plugin::Ping; my $ping = Wiki::Toolkit::Plugin::Ping->new( node_to_url => 'http://mywiki/$node', services => { "geourl" => 'http://geourl.org/ping?p=$url' }, agent => "My Wiki ping agent", ); $wiki->register_pugin( plugin => $ping ); DESCRIPTION
A plug-in for Wiki::Toolkit sites, which will "ping" various external services when a node is written. A list of the services to ping, and where in their URLs to add the URL of the node, are supplied when the plugin is created. You need to tell it how to turn a node into a URL (node_to_url), and what services to ping (services). You can optionally pass a custom user-agent string AUTHOR
The Wiki::Toolkit team (http://www.wiki-toolkit.org/) COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2003-2004 I. P. Williams (ivorw_openguides [at] xemaps {dot} com). Copyright (C) 2006-2009 the Wiki::Toolkit team (http://www.wiki-toolkit.org/) All Rights Reserved. This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. SEE ALSO
Wiki::Toolkit, Wiki::Toolkit::Plugin, OpenGuides perl v5.10.1 2009-02-24 Wiki::Toolkit::Plugin::Ping(3pm)
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