/sbin not in path in su?

[Benjamin J. Weiss]

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From: "Matthias Blankertz" <matthias at blankertz.homeip.net>
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Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 10:16 AM
Subject: Re: /sbin not in path in su?


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> Am Dienstag 16 Dezember 2003 17:11 schrieb Mike Evans:
> > 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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> 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'.

Or by typing 'su -' instead of 'su'.