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