Missing command line commands

[jludwig]

On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 12:38, Jenkins, Jeremiah wrote:
> first, could your PATH have gotten messed up?
> 
> do a locate depmod, (/sbin/)
> 
> then do echo $PATH and make sure :/sbin is listed.  if not export
> PATH=$PATH:/sbin and it should work
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Barnsdale [mailto:daividb2000 at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 12:35 PM
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: Missing command line commands
> 
> 
> On Monday I finally got FC2 installed and everything
> looked fine.  However when I tried to set up my Intel
> modem I got error messages when it tried to use
> depmod and rmmod.  I tested these myself
> with rmmod -V and so on and the error message
> was command not found.
> 
> I got the same message with insmod, modprobe
> fdisk, sfdisk and cfdisk.  I was logged in as root.
> 
> I have installed paragui and it's dependencies but
> that
> shouldn't cause this kind of problem should it?
> 
> So did something, after all, go wrong with the install
> and what can I do to check what that could be?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> David
> 
> 
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A normal user does not have a path to /sbin. If you want to use a
program in /sbin you must have uers permission and the give the command
with the path I.E. /sbin/fdisk or have the path included.
-- 
jludwig <wralphie at comcast.net>