Subject: Re: Can we triple boot
From: Andre (charly22@sympatico.ca)
Date: Thu Jun 21 2001 - 22:34:49 MDT
Found it in /usr/sbin but boot or not I am still getting command not found.
Andre
John Canning a *crit :
> On Thu Jun 21 20:14:48 2001 David C. Hacker, DVM wrote:
> >
> > You have to log in as root if you want to just type ybin at any command
> > prompt and get it to run. Otherwise you have to cd to the directory it is
> > in and type ./ybin. I think it is in /usr/sbin. Not at my linux box now so
> > don't know for sure.
>
> Under Unix/Linux, you have an environment variable called PATH. This
> tells your shell where to look for commands that you enter on the
> command line or that are called by other shell scripts.
>
> When you log in as root, your PATH is set to include /sbin and /usr/sbin.
> When you log in as a general user, your PATH is not set to include
> these "system" directories. However, you can edit your profile (the
> name of the file varies based on your shell) to set your PATH to
> have different directories included in it.
>
> If a program is not on your path, you can change directories, as David
> mentioned, or you can just enter a full path name (/usr/sbin/whatever).
>
> You can also set your PATH variable to look in the current directory
> for a command. To do that, add either a :.: or :: to your PATH variable
> (again, it depends on your shell).
>
> I'm old Unix person, so I live in the world of sh and ksh; since most
> Linux folks use bash, I am being unspecific about the shell.
>
> John
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