What to do when a command isn't found?
starcycle at gmail.com
starcycle at gmail.com
Thu Jul 6 18:54:45 UTC 2006
On 7/6/06, fedora-list-request at redhat.com
<fedora-list-request at redhat.com> 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.
>
they weren't for me, on either system i installed. i had to manually
add those to the path in /root/.bashrc to have access to them without
typing /sbin/<command> or /usr/sbin/<command>, etc. everytime. damned
annoying. i haven't read the whole digest on this topic, but i can see
how someone new to linux could be confused by not having the command
available. imo, FC should default to putting the /sbin, /usr/sbin,
/usr/bin etc. paths in the root $PATH.
sc
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