no sbin directories in $PATH for root

Erik Espinoza erik.espinoza at gmail.com
Mon Jun 21 21:48:06 UTC 2004


Would you happen to be using an old version of the j2re from Dag? He
defaulted the path improperly in /etc/profile.d/java.sh. It was
changed in subsequent versions however.

Erik

On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 22:45:55 +0100, Dave Cross <dave at dave.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 02:42:16PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On a fresh fc2 install, suing to root doesn't update the path to contain
> > /sbin, /usr/sbin and /usr/local/sbin.
> >
> > Has anyone else had this problem?
> 
> "su root" doesn't do that. "su - root" does. That's how su has always
> worked.
> 
> Dave...
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