[olug] Path statement

[Klaruz]

I don't think you did anything different. The new distro you installed
probobly doesn't have /sbin and /usr/sbin in the path to keep yourself from
shooting a hole in your foot. The theory is, if we make you type /sbin/lilo
instead of lilo we make you think about it first. It's like how rm is set to
ask you if you're sure all the time if you're root. You can change all of
this by editing your rc files for your shell. I'm not sure if you're using
tcsh or bash or something else, so I'll leave that for another email

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Nathan Brown" <tbrownarcher at home.com>
To: <olug at bstc.net>
Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2001 5:11 PM
Subject: Re: [olug] Path statement


>
>
> 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
> >
> > --
> >   "In order to make an apple pie from scratch,
> >       you must first create the universe."
> >                  - Carl Sagan
> >
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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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