----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Evans" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 10:11 AM Subject: /sbin not in path in su? > 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 Mike, When you type 'su', you are switching to super user (root) rights, but you are not getting the super user's environment, which includes the PATH environment variable. I would suggest that you use 'su -' instead of 'su', as it will then give you the super user's environment as well. Ben
