Adding /sbin and /usr/sbin to everyone's path in F10

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Thu Apr 24 15:03:30 UTC 2008


Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 09:49:27PM -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
>>> If you don't know how to find ifconfig and add it to
>>> your $PATH then you probably would just shoot yourself in the foot
>>> with it, if you don't know but are motivated you can certainly find
>>> this info easily enough. Our time on this earth is limited  but its
>>> not that limited.
>> Actually, it is.  Every day, lose six minutes from having to retype a sudo 
>> line due to not having a PATH configured with sbin.  Most likely when 
>> you're already stressed that something is broken and you just want to find 
>> out what as quickly as possible.
> 
> If you know something is broken and you need to fix it then why use
> sudo on every call to something needing root privileges and not do the
> right thing and su -/sudo -i and diagnose and fix the problem?

That fixes your PATH, but it breaks your working directory if you were 
already in the right place.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell at gmail.com




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