Re: path fudge
Cameron Simpson <[email protected]>
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On 01:24 08 Jun 2003, Oisin C. Feeley <[email protected]> wrote: | On Sat, 7 Jun 2003, Michael Fratoni wrote: | >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: [...] | Me too. Isn't this disparity the result of doing "su root" versus "su | - root", where the latter behaves as a login shell? I'm going to have to dig more deeply then - I definitely run into this a lot at work. I'll report back when I've figured out what's different. -- Cameron Simpson <[email protected]> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ What I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. - Charles Dickens John Huffam 1812-1870 Hard Times [1854]