look in sbin, indeed that is what I did...... Regardless, I will probably forget again being that most of the machine I work on do not have a GUI. I can't remember the last time I had to shutdown an xserver on Centos/RHEL. It is lame that they do not link the command; if people are dumb enough to use unknown commands when they are root, then the person that gave them root is to blame.
Chris... On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 2:41 AM, Peter Manis <[email protected]> wrote: > Really anyone who uses commands in sbin should know they live in sbin, > anyone who doesn't well, those are the ones they are probably trying to > protect you from. I've seen and heard of enough incidents where people have > heard of a command and played with it and done damage, if it isn't in their > path they are less likely to go looking for it IMO, they will think it isn't > installed. > I add sbin to path because anyone who is going to be on any of my systems > with root access knows the commands in sbin. > > > On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 4:39 AM, Manny <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Chris Penn <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I think its /sbin/init 3 >> > $)#$(@+ RHEL, I hate you...... >> > >> >> Lol... I hate when even 'root' doesn't have /sbin , etc. in the path. >> They do it for security reasons, although we all know that security by >> obscurity doesn't work! >> >> --Manny >> _______________________________________________ >> LinuxUsers mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > > > > -- > Peter Manis > (678) 269-7979 > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > > -- "As we open our newspapers or watch our television screens, we seem to be continually assaulted by the fruits of Mankind's stupidity." -Roger Penrose
