Incorrect $PATH value for root user

Brandon Allbery allbery.b at gmail.com
Thu Apr 10 07:37:01 PDT 2014


On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 6:39 AM, Помазёнков Виталий <vitorg at yandex.ru>wrote:

> Type command sudo -i and fill your password.
> Type command echo $PATH.
>
> *Result*
>
>
> /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/X11/bin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin
>

This is sudo's doing (and Apple's insofar as Apple determines both sudo
configuration and how the root account works), because you used -i.
MacPorts can't control either one. Try sudo -s instead; it preserves your
environment.

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