From: Randall Parker 

John Beckett wrote:
> Randall Parker
>

> wrote in message news::
>> Is sbin supposed to be on my path?
> I don't know, but I suspect not (unless you are logged in directly as
> root, which is considered bad form).

Here's my path before logging in as root:

[randall{at}localhost browsers]$ echo $PATH
/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/randall/bin

Here's my longer path after logging in as root:

[root{at}localhost browsers]# echo $PATH
/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bi
n
:/home/randall/bin

So all it adds for the root is /usr/kerberos/bin.

BTW, the hostname command does not change the hostname permanently. The
manual says one has to edit the /etc/hosts file to do that. But am I
supposed to then change localhost.localdomain or localhost or both? See
below:

[root{at}localhost browsers]# cat /etc/hosts
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1               localhost.localdomain localhost

216.144.1.254   news.barkto.com

Aside: I did the news.barkto.com addition in hopes of speeding up access to
this group. Didn't help any.

>
> The experienced admin is supposed to always type a full path when
> executing stuff as root, in order to avoid running malware that might have
> the same name (e.g. a fake 'ifconfig' executable).
>
>> How can I check that?
> I think:
> echo $PATH
>

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