Re: How to add /sbin to useable paths on FC5

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On Monday 05 March 2007 02:47, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Sunday 04 March 2007, Nigel Henry wrote:
> >On Sunday 04 March 2007 18:38, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >> On Sunday 04 March 2007, Nigel Henry wrote:

> >> >This library is built using scons, but when I su to root to do a
> >> > "scons install" it insists on running ldconfig, which it can't as
> >> > it's not calling /sbin/ldconfig, and lunches out saying there's a
> >> > problem.

> >> >What do I need to do, so that it is not necessary to call ldconfig
> >> >as /sbin/ldconfig?
> >>
> >> 'su -' maybe?
> >
> >Thanks Gene. I'd tried that, but then scons install was looking in the
> > /root directory for the SConstruct file, and it obviously wasn't there.
> > Darned computers!
> >
> >Nigel.
>
> Well, I'm not on speaking terms with scons, but if you intended that file
> to execute, you can either put it someplace in your $PATH, or cd to the
> directory containing it and "sh ./Sconstruct".  I suspect that is not the
> problem, but its in that general category.  Perhaps you need to set an
> env variable or something similar?

Well I fixed it temporarily by creating a softlink pointing 
from /usr/local/bin/ldconfig to /sbin/ldconfig.  I've now added /sbin to 
~/.bash_profile. Now all I have to do is find out how to use Aldrin, the app 
that needed this library installed.

Thanks.

Nigel.


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