On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 16:58 +1000, James Cameron wrote: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 10:28:30PM -0700, Javier Cardona wrote: > > David, > > > > > I am in the Developer console..... > > > > > > iwconfig: command not found > > > ifconfig: command not found > > > > But for now, can you try to login as root first and provide the full > > path to iwconfig? > > $ su - > > # /sbin/iwconfig > > Is there any good reason why we don't have /usr/sbin and /sbin in PATH? > > On Debian and Ubuntu systems I don't get this problem. When I su to > root PATH is sane. On OLPC and Fedora systems this doesn't work.
ISTR that it was because non-admin users (ie, not root or a sysadmin) shouldn't need binaries in /sbin or /usr/sbin. And that we shouldn't put binaries that need to be run by non-privileged users in /sbin or /usr/sbin. Looking at stuff there, most of it requires root privs to be useful anyway. This is an upstream Fedora thing and not OLPC-specific; you should probably ask there as well and see what other Fedora people say. I don't really feel strongly one way or the other. Dan _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
