path fudge 2003-06-07 - By Oisin C. Feeley
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On Sat, 7 Jun 2003, Michael Fratoni wrote:
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>On Saturday 07 June 2003 08:25 pm, Cameron Simpson wrote:
>> On 13:54 07 Jun 2003, jdow <jdow@(protected)> wrote:
>> | Usually one wants to do the module "thing" as root. That's why /sbin
>> | and /usr/sbin are not on the standard user path. So I suspect the
>> | proper way to fix it is to perform the operation as root.
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>> Yeah, but on RedHat /sbin's not in root's $PATH either:-(
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>I don't have a machine running 7.2 at the moment.
>/sbin is in root's $PATH on my 7.3, 8.0, and 9 machines:
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># cat /etc/redhat-release ; echo $PATH
>Red Hat Linux release 8.0 (Psyche)
>/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:.....
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Me too. Isn't this disparity the result of doing "su root" versus "su
- root", where the latter behaves as a login shell?
Oisin Feeley
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