Hi Russ: My understanding is 'it don't work that way in Linux'. Linux
always uses the "PATH". You can get to the current folder by using the
'current location' operator "." - ie: ./reboot if you are in the folder
that contains reboot.
Tom
At 12:28 PM 3/5/99 -0600, you wrote:
>***** NOTES from Russ Brucks (RUSSB @ KFOC-GRP) at 3/05/99 12:24 PM
>Yes that works fine... Thanks... Question is, why when I cd to /sbin and
>ran reboot from the cmdl, did it still report bash: reboot: etc.etc..??
>Perhaps because I'm so nu to Linux/Unix I'm not understanding the ways the
>PATH works... I figure it would start in the current directory, then if
>the command is not found there, it would search each dir in the PATH. That
>is how I am familiar with PATH.
>
>Another question: how can I change the way su is setting up root's
>environment? Sorry to pester with questions, but I'm learning! Thanks for
>the help!
>
>Russ
>
>FORWARDED MESSAGE from Ray Olszewski (ray @ comarre.com) at 3/05/99 12:21
>PM
>Probably su is not changing your enviromnent to root's, so reboot isn't in
>the default PATH. Just type the full path to the process, probably
>"/sbin/reboot" (check using the "which" command).
>
>At 11:57 AM 3/5/99 -0600, Russ Brucks wrote:
>>When I Telnet into my box, how can I reboot it from a Telnet session? I
>>can get superuser like "attributes" by running su from the command line,
>>but I get
>>
>>bash: reboot: command not found
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