On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Akintayo Holder wrote about, Re: Hopefully a simple question...:
> > I have an executable in /USR/LOCAL/SBIN called TCPDUMP.
> >
> > When I am in the dir in a shell logged in as ROOT, I can only execute the program
>by typing ./TCPDUMP instead of just TCPDUMP. The same goes for perl scripts.
> >
> > Am I missing something here or is this normal behavior?
> try echo path, this should show if /usr/local/sbin is in your path. you
> can then add it to root's path.
Oops, i complety forgot to mention the PATH enviroment i was thinking along
the lines that having the PWD in ones PATH as in "." is not such a good
idea. My appols for not thinking.
However a small correction for, "try" 'echo path' that should be;
echo $PATH
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