Alfred von Campe
2012-Jun-15 17:14 UTC
[CentOS] Strange su behavior after installing latest CentOS updates
I did a "yum update" on my CentOS 6 systems yesterday for the first
time in about a month and now have some automated processes failing because the
PATH is not set up correctly when using "su". The problem is very
easy to see by comparing the output of the following two commands:
# su - <user> -c "env | grep PATH"
# su <user> -c "env | grep PATH"
Before yesterday's update, and on any CentOS 6.2 systems without the latest
(in the last month) updates and all CentOS 5.8 systems, PATH contained anything
that was set in /etc/profile.d, but it appears that it does not run anything in
that directory after yesterday's update. As I mentioned before, this is
breaking a lot of automated process that relied on the PATH being set correctly
when doing a "su - <user> -c ...". Is this a known issue? Is
anyone else affected by it? In case it matters, I'll include the list of
all the packages that were installed yesterday at the end of this message.
Thanks,
Alfred
Installed:
kernel.i686 0:2.6.32-220.17.1.el6 kernel-devel.i686 0:2.6.32-220.17.1.el6
Updated:
ImageMagick.i686 0:6.5.4.7-6.el6_2
apr.i686 0:1.3.9-5.el6_2
autocorr-en.noarch 1:3.2.1-19.6.el6_2.7
bash.i686 0:4.1.2-9.el6_2
bind-libs.i686 32:9.7.3-8.P3.el6_2.3
bind-utils.i686 32:9.7.3-8.P3.el6_2.3
epel-release.noarch 0:6-7
expat.i686 0:2.0.1-11.el6_2
firefox.i686 0:10.0.5-1.el6.centos
flash-plugin.i686 0:11.2.202.236-0.1.el6.rf
gnome-power-manager.i686 0:2.28.3-6.el6_2
google-chrome-stable.i386 0:19.0.1084.56-140965
java-1.6.0-openjdk.i686 1:1.6.0.0-1.48.1.11.3.el6_2
java-1.6.0-openjdk-devel.i686 1:1.6.0.0-1.48.1.11.3.el6_2
java-1.6.0-openjdk-javadoc.i686 1:1.6.0.0-1.48.1.11.3.el6_2
kernel-firmware.noarch 0:2.6.32-220.17.1.el6
kernel-headers.i686 0:2.6.32-220.17.1.el6
libatasmart.i686 0:0.17-4.el6_2
libsmbclient.i686 0:3.5.10-116.el6_2
net-tools.i686 0:1.60-110.el6_2
nfs-utils.i686 1:1.2.3-15.el6_2.1
openoffice.org-brand.i686 1:3.2.1-19.6.el6_2.7
openoffice.org-calc.i686 1:3.2.1-19.6.el6_2.7
openoffice.org-calc-core.i686 1:3.2.1-19.6.el6_2.7
openoffice.org-core.i686 1:3.2.1-19.6.el6_2.7
openoffice.org-draw.i686 1:3.2.1-19.6.el6_2.7
openoffice.org-draw-core.i686 1:3.2.1-19.6.el6_2.7
openoffice.org-graphicfilter.i686 1:3.2.1-19.6.el6_2.7
openoffice.org-impress.i686 1:3.2.1-19.6.el6_2.7
openoffice.org-impress-core.i686 1:3.2.1-19.6.el6_2.7
openoffice.org-langpack-en.i686 1:3.2.1-19.6.el6_2.7
openoffice.org-math.i686 1:3.2.1-19.6.el6_2.7
openoffice.org-math-core.i686 1:3.2.1-19.6.el6_2.7
openoffice.org-opensymbol-fonts.noarch 1:3.2.1-19.6.el6_2.7
openoffice.org-pdfimport.i686 1:3.2.1-19.6.el6_2.7
openoffice.org-presenter-screen.i686 1:3.2.1-19.6.el6_2.7
openoffice.org-ure.i686 1:3.2.1-19.6.el6_2.7
openoffice.org-writer.i686 1:3.2.1-19.6.el6_2.7
openoffice.org-writer-core.i686 1:3.2.1-19.6.el6_2.7
openoffice.org-xsltfilter.i686 1:3.2.1-19.6.el6_2.7
openssl.i686 0:1.0.0-20.el6_2.5
openssl-devel.i686 0:1.0.0-20.el6_2.5
postgresql-libs.i686 0:8.4.11-1.el6_2
samba.i686 0:3.5.10-116.el6_2
samba-client.i686 0:3.5.10-116.el6_2
samba-common.i686 0:3.5.10-116.el6_2
samba-winbind-clients.i686 0:3.5.10-116.el6_2
socat.i686 0:1.7.2.1-1.el6.rf
sos.noarch 0:2.2-17.el6_2.3
sudo.i686 0:1.7.4p5-9.el6_2
tcsh.i686 0:6.17-19.el6_2
tzdata.noarch 0:2012c-1.el6
tzdata-java.noarch 0:2012c-1.el6
xulrunner.i686 0:10.0.5-1.el6.centos
Leonard den Ottolander
2012-Jun-15 18:52 UTC
[CentOS] Strange su behavior after installing latest CentOS updates
Hello ALfred, On Fri, 2012-06-15 at 13:14 -0400, Alfred von Campe wrote:> I did a "yum update" on my CentOS 6 systems yesterday for the first time > in about a month and now have some automated processes failing because > the PATH is not set up correctly when using "su".Thanks for the heads up, but you should really take issues like this upstream. There's nothing the CentOS can or at least will do as they rebuild upstream ad verbatim. Try the RHEL 6 mailing list: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list Regards, Leonard. -- mount -t life -o ro /dev/dna /genetic/research