Subject: Re: PATH question...
From: Kelsey Damas (anagram@prtr-13.ucsc.edu)
Date: Thu Aug 17 2000 - 12:53:31 MDT
From the keys of Israel Alvarez:
> Hope I'm not annoying the regulars on here...
<shrug>...I'm not a regular, but questions are what this list is about, yes?
> Came across a strange problem when trying to run insmod - even after su-ing
> to root, I can't run insmod unless I'm in sbin and type ./insmod. Obviously,
> this causes probs for the atalk startup as well. I can access everything in
> bin no prob, but am wondering what's going on. Are /sbin tools only
> available for a local root? If so, how can I change this so that my inits
> have access to them?
Assuming bash is your shell:
in ~/.bashrc make sure you have this
export PATH=$PATH:/sbin
This will add /sbin to your pre-existing $PATH
HTH
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