What to do when a command isn't found?
Timothy Alberts
talberts at msiscales.com
Thu Jul 6 17:39:24 UTC 2006
On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 12:16 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Both the shell and the 'which' command search the directories in your
> PATH variable. ifconfig is in /sbin along with other utilities
> used for system administration. When you log in as root, /sbin and
> /usr/sbin is included in the PATH setting. Normally other users don't
> get those, although like most other things you can change that to
> suit yourself. If you "su - " from another logged in user you will
> pick up root's login environment. If you su without the '-' you keep
> the original environment and thus the PATH.
>
That explains it, thank you everyone that responded, valuable
information from everyone. The su with the - is what I was missing.
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