Re: /sbin not in path in su?

Ok, that makes sense, but (and I could be wrong) doesn't that happen automatically with other distributions (I just came from SuSE 9)?

Matthias Blankertz wrote:

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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


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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
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