On Tuesday 16 December 2003 18:11, 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. Instead of just "su" issue a "su -" command in order to run the startup scripts that properly set your environment variables. Mihai