On Sun July 17 2005 12:27 pm, Tony Nelson wrote: > At 2:13 AM -0500 7/17/05, John Bray wrote: > >here's a classic case of how to realllly screw up. su - to root. echo > >$PATH note that some dolt has managed to set root's path to include > >/usr/local/bin BEFORE the official sbins! want to guess how this > >stupidity is eventually going to bite us all? :-( > > Mine isn't quite so bad, but it does turn out to have the pattern > "foo/sbin", "foo/bin". I expect that you're saying that it should be all > sbins, then the bins. I think I'll change it to that. Still a new user here - could you explain how the PATH is edited? -- Claude Jones Bluemont, VA, USA