/sbin not in path in su?

[Mike Chambers]

On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 10:11, Mike Evans wrote:

> Since ifconfig is in /sbin and I was su, why wouldn't /sbin be in my 
> PATH?

Try doing "su -" (notice the hyphen included in the command) instead of
su.  su just gets you to root, but not root's environment, therefore not
root's path(s).

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Mike Chambers
Madisonville, KY

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