/sbin not in path in su?

[Mike Evans]

Ok, that makes sense, but (and I could be wrong) doesn't that happen 
automatically with other distributions (I just came from SuSE 9)?

Matthias Blankertz wrote:

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>Am Dienstag 16 Dezember 2003 17:11 schrieb Mike Evans:
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>>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"
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>>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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>If you switch to root from another user account with su then the enviroment 
>variables (including /sbin and /usr/sbin in PATH) of root are not set, which 
>means you can fix the problem by either logging in as root directely or by 
>executing 'export PATH=$PATH:/sbin:/usr/sbin'.
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>Matthias
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