Re: no sbin directories in $PATH for root

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• Subject: Re: no sbin directories in $PATH for root
• From: Dave Cross <dave@xxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 22:45:55 +0100
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On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 02:42:16PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On a fresh fc2 install, suing to root doesn't update the path to contain 
> /sbin, /usr/sbin and /usr/local/sbin.
> 
> Has anyone else had this problem?

"su root" doesn't do that. "su - root" does. That's how su has always
worked.

Dave...

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