On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 12:16 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > Both the shell and the 'which' command search the directories in your > PATH variable. ifconfig is in /sbin along with other utilities > used for system administration. When you log in as root, /sbin and > /usr/sbin is included in the PATH setting. Normally other users don't > get those, although like most other things you can change that to > suit yourself. If you "su - " from another logged in user you will > pick up root's login environment. If you su without the '-' you keep > the original environment and thus the PATH. > That explains it, thank you everyone that responded, valuable information from everyone. The su with the - is what I was missing.
