[olug] Path statement

[Nathan Brown]

ktb wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 04:24:57PM -0600, Nathan Brown wrote:
> > In my present install of Red Hat 7 I have a problem I did not have with
> > previous installs of the same version .  Some programs such as FDISK or
> > LILO and some others too will not load when I type fdisk or lilo in the
> > command line.
> > I'm not familiar with anything that be like the path statement in DOS's
> > Autoexec file, or is it the config sys.   Can't remember .. Is there
> > something like that in Linux?  If there is something like this that I
> > can write to what is it?
> >
> 
>         Su to root and run them.  Sometimes you have to use the full
>         path such as /sbin/lilo.  It is set that way for security reasons.
>         hth,
>         kent
> 
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I'm trying to run them from root that is what is strange to me.
they work if I type the full path but they ran without that in the
previous install ... 
What did I do different in this install?  

thanks
Nate

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