some commands are not available

Ed Greshko Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Wed Jun 7 06:49:36 UTC 2006


GiL A. Virtucio wrote:
> hi,
> 
> im a newbie redhat linux user. i just want to ask if theres a way to be
> able to make the binaries in /usr/sbin/ directly accessible when I
> execute them in a SSH session.
> 
> here's what happens when i try to execute those commands:
> 
> [root at CristaLe-KwAk sbin]# apachectl restart
> bash: apachectl: command not found
> 
> 
> [root at CristaLe-KwAk sbin]# /usr/sbin/apachectl start
> httpd not running, trying to start

It seems when you became root you did "su".  Instead of that do "su -".
 You will then get the $PATH variable set for root with /usr/sbin included.

Ed




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