Re: /sbin not in path in su?

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I could be wrong but I believe that to use the correct environment you have
to
su -

instead of

su

Best Regards

Ignacio

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Evans" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 5:11 PM
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
>
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