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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Locating executables in root's PATH (in KAuth helper)
From:       Enda Cronnolly <enda () codefoundry ! com>
Date:       2011-05-08 17:46:46
Message-ID: 201105081846.46365.enda () codefoundry ! com
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On Sunday 08 May 2011 18:35:42 David Jarvie wrote:
> Is there any KDE or Qt way to locate an executable using the root PATH.
> Specifically, I want to run something which on my system is in /usr/sbin/,
> calling it from a KAuth helper module running as root.
> KStandarDirs::findExe() doesn't produce any result (the PATH variable
> doesn't seem to be set up). I could hard code the /usr/sbin/ path, but
> that doesn't seem desirable in case the executable is elsewhere on some
> systems.

http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?whereis

Regards,

 -Enda.
 
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