/sbin not in path in su?

[Ralph Angenendt]

Mike Evans wrote:
> Sorry if this has been covered... I'm new to the list and the search 
> function in the archives is non-op.  After a brand new install of Fedora 
> Core 1 on my Thinkpad R40, I was trying to compile some drivers and 
> noticed that all the errors and warnings that cropped up were related to 
> the script not being able to find "ifconfig"
> 
> Since ifconfig is in /sbin and I was su, why wouldn't /sbin be in my 
> PATH?  I'm not only confused about that, but how to remedy the 
> situation. 

Because you should be "su -" if you want to have root's environment.
Simple su gives you id 0 but you stay in your environment. And /sbin
won't be in your PATH then.

Ralph
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