On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 02:18:58PM +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have been struggling with setting up a wrapper (inspired by
> http://www.amanda.org/docs/howto-wrapper.html) to stop a Zope web site
> before dumping it.
> 
> Restarting would always cause a problem. I tracked it down to what I
> think is the reason.
> 
> When Amanda calll GNU tar or the wrapper script, the PATH is set to be
> empty. Am I right? This is mentionned nowhere in the howto page and
> that seems to be solved when I force a PATH in my script.
> 

Often, for security purposes and to ensure the needed bin dirs are
searched, the PATH gets set to just what is needed.  If your wrapper
needs additional dirs in PATH, it is quite reasonable for an early
line of the script to set and export PATH to what is needed.


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