On encountering the PATH problems in attempting to tweak several issues, I have been logging off the system under my username and logging on as root to deal with the matter(s). Using su - is clearly much simpler.
Paul Howarth wrote:
Duncan Lithgow wrote:
Paul Howarth wrote:
Duncan Lithgow wrote:
Neither swapon nor mkswap are recognised by my bash terminal. I get a lot of that trying to follow what people suggest - is something wrong with that too!?
You've probably got the wrong PATH setting, by using "su" to become root instead of "su -".
thanks, i've always used >>su root what is >>su -
The "-" parameter makes su run as a login shell, so it sets up the environment as if you had logged in as root, including adding /sbin and /usr/sbin to the PATH environment variable.
It didn't help though. I get
[root@3e6b347a dulithgow]# su - [root@3e6b347a ~]# swapon -s [root@3e6b347a ~]# mkswap /dev/hda6 /dev/hda6: No such file or directory [root@3e6b347a ~]#
Your swap partition is probably somewhere else then. What's the output of "fdisk -l /dev/hda"?
Paul.
