Re: Different PATHs in /etc/rc and /etc/rc.shutdown

Hi,

On 15/03/2022 09:21, Andre Albsmeier wrote:
> Today I was bitten by the fact that /etc/rc.shutdown and /etc/rc set different
> PATHs (I used a command sitting in /usr/local/sbin w/o specifying its path
> and it worked in stop_cmd() but not in start_cmd()):
>
> /etc/rc.shutdown: PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin
> /etc/rc:          PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
>
> Is there a reason for this? Or should they be made equal? In the latter case
> I will file a PR...
>
> 	-Andre
>
It seems it's been like that since 1997:

https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=8889c700f314bb2d6fc652ff

I'd say that /usr/local/sbin should not be included in the PATH of /etc/rc.shutdown for consistency, 
but then this behavior is almost 20 year old now.

In the end, I'd that /usr/local/sbin should not be there and perhaps it should be gone for FreeBSD 14.0.

Best,

Mateusz Piotrowski