On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 02:33:46AM +0000, David L Norris wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 02:01, Wayne Steenburg wrote:
> > I promise this will be the last post :)
> > It appears that exporting the path in this manner is only temporary.
> > You could modify the .bash_profile in your home directory. There might
> > be a better way though. I'm still kind of new at this still.
>
> Disclaimer: it's not really a good idea to put sbin directories in the
> PATH of a normal user. Particularly not (/usr/sbin) on Fedora or Red
> Hat systems as it could interfere with consolehelper if done
> incorrectly.
> However, the way you're doing it should be perfectly fine (/sbin last):
> export PATH=${PATH}:/sbin
>
>
> You can add stuff to the system-wide profile by creating an executable
> text file in /etc/profile.d/ with the appropriate name (*.sh for bash,
> *.csh for csh). Just make sure you don't remove the line in your
> ~/.bash_profile script which includes /etc/profile.
The fact that he has to add it to his path tells me that
he is a) not root; b) did a "su " not a "su -".
A normal user should not have to add sbin to $PATH. Some of us
do but that is a preference not a need.
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