[olug] Path statement

[Nathan Brown]

Klaruz wrote:
> 
> 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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Ok.  But I thought that in previous installs of the same ver I was not
having to do that ... maybe i'm wrong ... but i found something out that
i don't understand ...... when i log in as root it does not work the way
i thought it should.  But then when i type su - then it works ...
what is the difference ?  I thought that su - was the same as logging in
as root on the login screen.  

thanks
Nate

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