bashrc and sudo issues

mrmnemo · 06-18-2011, 12:31 AM

Hi,

I have not been on in about a month or 2. I have no idea how to list this thread. I am hoping that someone like tex can help out. Being lazy with ubuntu seems to have been badong. Any way, I got issues. Please dont flame me.

Ok, I had 2 physical machines and 3 vms. VM's ran under Vbox-ose via a bridge. OS's are buntu x2 and one centOS box. I installed webmin to make things easy ( i thought ). However, after setting webmin, my I have been randomly loosing PATH's. I mean, one minuet i can run sudo apt-get and the next the whole PATH is gone.
I tried a compare of my "home" box's bashrc and bash_profile against the other machins, and outside of some alias for colr and the like nothing seems to stand out. Even if I su - to root I am not getting access to the needed paths. Now, while I could export the correct path, I am more conserned with the why of it all. I would have thought that as long as my group setting on my ssh users were all correct AND the environment had not been changed, all would be good.

I can provide more info if someone wants to help me out with this. HOwever, it drove me to a six pack. 8S

I have read the man pages. I have used google. I have checked the logs. The logs by the way showed a lil hammering on one of the boxes for root access. [I]t wasnt me. However, I dont seem to be able to see a time stamp.

Well, thats what I got. I could use some help from someone that walks the talk. T

jv2112 · 06-18-2011, 06:23 AM

If you have checked the user bash profile. I would recommend looking at the system bashrc. (/etc/bash.bashrc).

First I would open two terminals and in one echo $PATH and compare to the configurations which you can open using vi ( or whatever program you prefer) in the other.

Step 1 : Asses environment

Quote:

joe@Tux-Box:~$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/lib:/usr/lib64:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/joe/Scripts

Step 2 : Compare

Quote:

# System-wide .bashrc file for interactive bash(1) shells.

# To enable the settings / commands in this file for login shells as well,
# this file has to be sourced in /etc/profile.

# If not running interactively, don't do anything
[ -z "$PS1" ] && return

# check the window size after each command and, if necessary,
# update the values of LINES and COLUMNS.
shopt -s checkwinsize

# set variable identifying the chroot you work in (used in the prompt below)
if [ -z "$debian_chroot" ] && [ -r /etc/debian_chroot ]; then
debian_chroot=$(cat /etc/debian_chroot)
fi

# set a fancy prompt (non-color, overwrite the one in /etc/profile)
PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h:\w\$ '

# Commented out, don't overwrite xterm -T "title" -n "icontitle" by default.
# If this is an xterm set the title to user@host:dir
#case "$TERM" in
#xterm*|rxvt*)
# PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME}: ${PWD}\007"'
# ;;
#*)
# ;;
#esac

# enable bash completion in interactive shells
#if [ -f /etc/bash_completion ] && ! shopt -oq posix; then
# . /etc/bash_completion
#fi

# if the command-not-found package is installed, use it
if [ -x /usr/lib/command-not-found -o -x /usr/share/command-not-found ]; then
function command_not_found_handle {
# check because c-n-f could've been removed in the meantime
if [ -x /usr/lib/command-not-found ]; then
/usr/bin/python /usr/lib/command-not-found -- $1
return $?
elif [ -x /usr/share/command-not-found ]; then
/usr/bin/python /usr/share/command-not-found -- $1
return $?
else
return 127
fi
}
fi

# JOE MODS---Debian Wheezy------4/11

PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/lib:/usr/lib64:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/joe/Scripts

function tunes ()

{

randomplay -d 5 /media/N-Space/Tunes/

}

HISTCONTROL=erasedups

HISTFILESIZE=3000
HISTSIZE=3000

mrmnemo · 06-18-2011, 12:28 PM

Hey,

Thanks for your help. I am trying to find out the WHY of the change. I have added needed PATH. I am just getting changes in them. Either way, trying to figure out if it is something I did or if there is a conflict somewhere. I dont know what could cause the paths available to me WHILE logged in to change / drop.

jv2112 · 06-19-2011, 06:43 AM

Ghost in the Machine

Not sure of any program that would overwrite that but I am also a bit of a

Good Luck.