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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users sudo environment setting? Post 302279615 by nixnoob on Friday 23rd of January 2009 09:47:49 AM
Old 01-23-2009
Thank you very much for the information. Never considered the httpd.conf file but your suggestion did fix one issue I was having.

The envvars file did have the correct variable path statement in it which still begs the question as to why issuing a sudo <any command> doesn't pick up any environment variables. Unless it's the fact that even though your telling the system to issue the command as root, you're not initiating root user and the environment settings like you would if you switch to root using sudo su - root.
 

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nlspath(4)						     Kernel Interfaces Manual							nlspath(4)

NAME
nlspath - NLSPATH configuration file DESCRIPTION
The file allows the superuser to restrict the paths set by others through an environment variable to locate message catalogs for or root programs. This file contains only one entry with the following format: pseudo-pathnames in this file should be absolute pathnames and must be separated by a colon. The paths which are available both in the configuration file and environment variable are considered to locate message catalog files. The file should not be edited directly. Instead, the command should be used to modify the contents of this file. See chnlspath(1M) for details. If contains the file is in compatibility mode. In this case, all and root programs use the environment variable directly to locate message catalogs. This configuration file is supported only to provide backward compatibility for those or root programs which are depending on the environment variable New or root programs should not depend on the environment variable and configuration file EXAMPLES
An entry in this file would typically look like: WARNINGS
The configuration file must be root owned and there should not be write permission set for group and others. Superuser should not provide write permission for group and others for the paths mentioned in the configuration file. is provided only for compatibility with existing or root applications that make use of relative pathnames while invoking catopen(3C). New or root applications must use absolute pathnames while invoking catopen(3C). This file is to be obsoleted at a future date. FILES
SEE ALSO
catopen(3C), chnlspath(1M), environ(5). TO BE OBSOLETED nlspath(4)
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