/sbin not in path in su?

[Mihai Maties]

On Tuesday 16 December 2003 18:11, Mike Evans 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.

Instead of just "su" issue a "su -" command in order to run the startup 
scripts that properly set your environment variables.


Mihai