Questions tagged [path]
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ErrorDocument in .htaccess, is it possible to use relative path?
This doesn't work:
ErrorDocument 401 ../../src/wrong_pwd.php
it renders the path as text, it really prints
../../src/wrong_pwd.php
and doesn't output the real file.
If I put the absolute path it will render the contents of /var/www/home (I…

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PATH variable and quotation marks (windows)
I am having a weird problem with the PATH variable under windows:
My application is in a folder c:\app\bin and the DLLs for this application are in the c:\app\runtime folder. To run my program I modify the PATH variable with a *.bat file usually…

Heinrich
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Why is the cron ENV different from the user's ENV?
On a new Ubuntu install, a user's PATH is:
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games
But in that same user's cron environment, it is:
/usr/bin:/bin
I looked at all the user's dot files in the home…

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Strange PATH when use sudoers via ldap
I have a working LDAP authentication environment. LDAP server is on ubuntu 12.04 machine while client are all centos 6.4 machines. Recently I configure sudoers in LDAP following this article…

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Prevent setx to expand an environment variable?
I can add to the PATH variable from the console using the following command:
setx PATH "%JAVA_HOME%\bin;%PATH%" /m
However, when I check the PATH variable afterwards the JAVA_HOME variable has been expanded so that the actual PATH looks like…

Svish
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Robocopy uses relative path for Source and Destination paths
I'm trying to use RoboCopy in my TFS Build Template to copy some files, but for some reason it inserts "C:\Windows\system32" in front of my Source and Destination paths, even though I am passing in absolute paths. I know that the robocopy.exe is…

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Is `which` lying to me?
I installed git via apt-get, but found that the version was hopelessly outdated, so I then installed git from source. The end result is rather puzzling:
$ git --version
git version 1.7.0.4
$ which git
/usr/local/bin/git
$ /usr/local/bin/git…

Josh Bleecher Snyder
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Changing PATH Environment Variable for all Users. (Ubuntu)
I recently compiled Ruby Enterprise Edition (REE) on an Ubuntu 8.04 server.
I would like to update my PATH to ensure this new version of Ruby (found in /opt/ruby_ee/bin) supersedes the older version in /usr/local/bin. (I still want the old version…

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Why is my $PATH variable for root different when I use su root
When I was trying to run chkconfig as an ordinary user (on CentOS 5) I realized that I could not access it because the directory, sbin, is not in my $PATH. When I su to root it still doesn't work. I realize that the $PATH variable is the same as the…

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using powershell to update system path doesn't immediately work?
I am trying to use powershell to update Windows system path by :
$oldpath = (Get-ItemProperty -Path ‘Registry::HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment’ -Name PATH).path
$newpath =…

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Using 'which' command in cron job
I have a cron job that runs once a day on a Linux server and in the script it executes there is a test:
# Validate ffmpeg is installed
if [ $(which ffmpeg | grep -c "ffmpeg") -eq 0 ]; then
echo "error: ffmpeg is not installed!" | tee -a "$log"
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Cannot access svn repository in correct path
My repository directory is /var/www/svn and access file is /var/www/svn-auth
and I create repository project1 in svn directory
My configuration
svn.mydomain.com.conf
ServerName svn.mydomain.com
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Running a program remotely with SSH, but it won't use my .bashrc and the PATH is wrong
I'm trying to run a command remotely with SSH, but my problem is that when I do that, my .basrhc doesn't get executed, and so the PATH is all wrong and my script is breaking.
What I'm doing is
ssh www.remotehost.com 'my_command'
I've also tried…
Josh Gibson
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Per-application library paths on CentOS
Context:
After a recent version upgrade of a bunch of our server software, I've found myself in a dilemma:
I have two sets of applications (Zend server and assorted utils, and a bunch of PostgreSQL management utilities) that both heavily use a…

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How to fix Puppet fully-qualified parameter path error?
I regularly but randomly get the following error message when I run the puppet client on machines (non-daemonized):
err: Could not create : Parameter path failed: File paths must be fully qualified
warning: Not using cache on failed…

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