UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

I have recently discovered an annoying problem with some of our Linux boxes (running Opensuse 11.3) that is defying our attempts to resolve.

If I (or anyone else using c shell) log in remotely to 2 of our Opensuse 11.3 machines with ssh, then they cannot run a lot of software. It seems that $PATH is not synchronised with $path and $PATH appears to be read only. Furthermore echo $PATH does not return the same thing as printenv $PATH.

A third machine running Opensuse 11.3 is fine. Also if I log in to these machines on the console, they are fine!

We cannot determine the cause (and solution).

Any ideas?

Andrew

You might want to try printenv PATH instead of printenv $PATH.

'PATH' and 'path' are different variables, yes. You should only be using PATH to define the PATH.

What do you mean by 'read-only'? If you alter it in the shell itself with export PATH="${PATH}:stuff" does "echo $PATH" show the changes? The changes naturally won't persist next time you login, being defined by your login scripts and not what you type in the shell.