Bug 671289
| Summary: | /etc/profile.d/which2.csh should be removed | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | Reporter: | Masahiro Matsuya <mmatsuya> |
| Component: | which | Assignee: | Than Ngo <than> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | BaseOS QE Security Team <qe-baseos-security> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 6.0 | CC: | angelotech, cww, jwest, mvadkert, pknirsch, pkovar, rda, spurrier |
| Target Milestone: | rc | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Prior to this update, the /etc/profile.d/which2.csh file caused an alias for the "which" command to be created. As a result, the "which" command included in the "which" package was used instead of the built-in "which" command as included in the C shell (csh). The problem has been fixed in this update by removing the /etc/profile.d/which2.csh file so that the "which" command included in csh is now used as expected.
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2011-06-29 07:42:45 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Description
Masahiro Matsuya
2011-01-21 01:10:37 UTC
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in the current release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Because the affected component is not scheduled to be updated in the current release, Red Hat is unfortunately unable to address this request at this time. Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to propose this request, if appropriate and relevant, in the next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. If you would like it considered as an exception in the current release, please ask your support representative. This issue was proposed for RHEL 6.1 FasTrack but did not get resolved in time. It has been moved to RHEL 6.2 FasTrack. I just ran into this problem on RHEL 6 -- couldn't figure out why 'which' was suddenly behaving differently. Then I realized I was no longer using the same 'which' I've been for years, but instead was running /usr/bin/which. /usr/bin/which differs from the tcsh builtin in a couple of significant ways: * /usr/bin/which doesn't report shell builtins (e.g. echo) * /usr/bin/which sends errors to stderr, the builtin sends them to stdout * /usr/bin/which creates much larger error messages when it cannot find the command requested (prints the entire $PATH) * /usr/bin/which runs much slower than the builtin (from the tcsh manpage: builtin which "is 10 to 100 times faster") Above and beyond the obnoxious behavior changes, there's an oddball comment in which2.csh that reads: # export AFS if you are in AFS environment That comment just seems outright wrong considering what that file is doing. An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-0911.html |