On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 08:11, Mike Evans wrote: > 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. The problem is that Red Hat/Fedora behave differently when su-ing to root. When you go "su root" you don't get the same path as when you "su -". I believe this is intentional, trying to force you to use what is general considered "safer", that being to "su -" as opposed to root. The reason for this, I think, being that if you su - you are thrown back into the /root directory. This way you don't accidentally muck up an important directory you may be at the time by accidentally deleting something. Preston
