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In a message dated: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 08:28:55 EDT Michael Bovee said: >Well, the encouraging replies from Derek M., Dan C., and Benjamin S. >have turned my frown upside down! (thanks for tolerating my whiney >tone yesterday) > >Simply put, my PATH is really hosed up! /sbin nowhere to be found. No >wonder I've been having so much trouble! Well, that's not surprising in the least. I'm going to take a wild guess that this is a RedHat system? They seem to have a knack for not including /sbin in anyone's path, including 'root'! I find this bizarre and completely incomprehensible to say the least. Sure, fine, a normal user might not ordinarily need to use 'ifconfig'. But 'root' sure as heck has a need for it! I don't remember, but I think they also leave out /usr/sbin as well. Not to pick exclusively on RH, I've noticed over the years that UNIX vendors in general have no clue how to set up a user environment correctly. Sun, HP, Compaq (nee DEC), none of them could provide a decent default PATH for users. I've ended up cobbling together my own over the years that includes some bizarre locations that are never in default PATHs, but, I expect most people do this anyway, mostly, like myself, out of necessity and frustration :) So, don't give up just yet. Once you figure how things work, you'll never want to be on a non-UNIX system ever again :) - -- Seeya, Paul -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 (debian 2.2-1) iD8DBQE8vC5zuweSOVPxKO4RAp1nAJ0fTKdDbrQj2qvLmfF2gTm5x5jseACfVScz UF2xxPppoaWWifQuBIXwF+E= =VDip -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
