On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 12:39 +0000, Andrew Wood wrote: > Hi all, > > Thanks for everyone who contributed suggestions, etc to my previous > query - see below. > > However I seem to have a more fundamental problem in the CLI - > bash - which reports that lvm commands commands aren't recognised. Any > idea what on earth that could be? Sorry to appear so dumb! > > For example: > [root@localhost andrew]# pvcreate /dev/hdd > bash: pvcreate: command not found > > It's odd as command 'ls' is working fine, and when I run 'yum install > lvm2' then that reports 'nothing to do'. Check your path. [root@atlantis mpeters]# which pvcreate /usr/bin/which: no pvcreate in (/usr/kerberos/sbin:/home/mpeters/cxo_bin:/home/mpeters/cxo_bin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/mpeters/bin) [root@atlantis mpeters]# su - [root@atlantis ~]# which pvcreate /usr/sbin/pvcreate [root@atlantis ~]# If you became root with just an "su" then you do not have root's path. You have to use su - to get roots path.