On 7/6/06, fedora-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx <fedora-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx> 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.
they weren't for me, on either system i installed. i had to manually add those to the path in /root/.bashrc to have access to them without typing /sbin/<command> or /usr/sbin/<command>, etc. everytime. damned annoying. i haven't read the whole digest on this topic, but i can see how someone new to linux could be confused by not having the command available. imo, FC should default to putting the /sbin, /usr/sbin, /usr/bin etc. paths in the root $PATH. sc
