On Wednesday, June 07 2000, Ryan King may have said:
> Sorry if this is OT or a FAQ, but why does neither RH6.1 or RH6.2 include
> /sbin/ in root's path?
>
> I've been brainstorming to try to conceive of a case where this is
> advantageous, but have come up empty-handed and confused. Any insight
> will help ease my distressed soul.
Umm... are you sure didn't just do a 'su' instead of a 'su -'? Just
running su by itself will inherit the environment already present intead
of getting a login shell for root. Logging in as root at a console
(something you should never do, but nevertheless :) gives me /usr/sbin
and /sbin both in my path as expected
Jeremy
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