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. Because you should be "su -" if you want to have root's environment. Simple su gives you id 0 but you stay in your environment. And /sbin won't be in your PATH then. Ralph
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