Re: path fudge
"Oisin C. Feeley" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.redhat.release.enigma |
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On Sat, 7 Jun 2003, Michael Fratoni wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >On Saturday 07 June 2003 08:25 pm, Cameron Simpson wrote: >> On 13:54 07 Jun 2003, jdow <[email protected]> wrote: >> | Usually one wants to do the module "thing" as root. That's why /sbin >> | and /usr/sbin are not on the standard user path. So I suspect the >> | proper way to fix it is to perform the operation as root. >> >> Yeah, but on RedHat /sbin's not in root's $PATH either:-( > >I don't have a machine running 7.2 at the moment. >/sbin is in root's $PATH on my 7.3, 8.0, and 9 machines: > ># cat /etc/redhat-release ; echo $PATH >Red Hat Linux release 8.0 (Psyche) >/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:..... > Me too. Isn't this disparity the result of doing "su root" versus "su - root", where the latter behaves as a login shell? Oisin Feeley