no sbin directories in $PATH for root

[Mike Fedyk]

 >>On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 02:42:16PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote:
 >>>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?
 > On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 22:45:55 +0100, Dave Cross <dave at dave.org.uk> wrote:
 >>"su root" doesn't do that. "su - root" does. That's how su has always
 >>worked.
 >>

I've been using debian since 1999, and having the path modified for 
non-login shells seems normal to me.  Is there any drawback where 
modifying $PATH for non-login shells might cause trouble?

Erik Espinoza wrote:
> 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.

Name        : j2re
Version     : 1.4.2
Release     : 8.1.fc2.dag

Mike