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Hi,
I use the following code to add the paths from the shell environment to exec-path:

(setq exec-path
      (append
       (split-string-and-unquote (getenv "PATH") ":")
       exec-path))

However, it does not work when "emacs24 --daemon" runs as a system autostart script. The interesting thing is that if I run "emacs24 --daemon" manually, the above code does work and the paths are successfully added.

I am really confused. Can anyone see why this happens?

I am running openbox on debian wheezy.