-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Tuesday 09 March 2004 22:19, russell wrote: > Arindam Dey wrote: > >On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 03:49, russell wrote: > >>Invoking adduser or useradd in root returns the message command not > >>found. I checked the install and adduser and useradd are there. Also, > >>when trying to run a utility I installed I get the message: > >>Missing utility ifconfig. Please install it. ifconfig is also installed > >>of course. Anyone have any ideas whats going on here? > > > >"su -" instead of "su" > > That did the trick! Many thanks. > > russell The reason for this being that "su" by itself does not set "/sbin" and "/usr/sbin" in the path, whereas "su -" does. You could also do 'su -c "/sbin/adduser"' with the specific path specified. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQFATtcWrT0x/nxLkjwRA9pnAJ0W4RgWSlfQM50qH3EER6LZr4hWxACfU9YW mnN3sg+fF98AVgYxvZc8sd4= =H4ri -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
