From: Tim Boyer 

On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 17:09:44 -0700, Randall Parker

wrote:

>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/bi
n
>
>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/b
in
>:/home/randall/bin
>

Did you really log in as root, or did you just do a su ?

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tim boyer
tim{at}denmantire.com

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