-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Am Dienstag 16 Dezember 2003 17:11 schrieb Mike Evans: > Sorry if this has been covered... I'm new to the list and the search > function in the archives is non-op. After a brand new install of Fedora > Core 1 on my Thinkpad R40, I was trying to compile some drivers and > noticed that all the errors and warnings that cropped up were related to > the script not being able to find "ifconfig" > > Since ifconfig is in /sbin and I was su, why wouldn't /sbin be in my > PATH? I'm not only confused about that, but how to remedy the > situation. Thanks for the help. > > Mike > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list If you switch to root from another user account with su then the enviroment variables (including /sbin and /usr/sbin in PATH) of root are not set, which means you can fix the problem by either logging in as root directely or by executing 'export PATH=$PATH:/sbin:/usr/sbin'. Matthias -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/3y/az/CQBOPkoHoRArIXAKCNTyBOnalJXnqUDx4QCUdRDW0NDgCgk213 LLtHg3fpsap9MJ7+52BcZyY= =cnFb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
