/sbin not in path in su?

Mark Haney mark.haney at doctordirectory.com
Tue Dec 16 16:19:04 UTC 2003


I asked the same question a couple months ago.  Add a '-' to the su 
command i.e. 'su - ' and that will do a full su login with all the PATH 
info for root.

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 09:11:11 -0700, Mike Evans 
<mike at public.arl.arizona.edu> wrote:

> Sorry if this has been covered... I'm new to the list and the search 
> function in the archives is non-op.  After a brand new install of Fedora 
> Core 1 on my Thinkpad R40, I was trying to compile some drivers and 
> noticed that all the errors and warnings that cropped up were related to 
> the script not being able to find "ifconfig"
>
> Since ifconfig is in /sbin and I was su, why wouldn't /sbin be in my 
> PATH?  I'm not only confused about that, but how to remedy the 
> situation.  Thanks for the help.
>
> Mike
>
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