Re: What to do when a command isn't found?

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On 7/6/06, fedora-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx
<fedora-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx> 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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