Thankyou for your kind words.
This machine is not on an open network or the internet.
Not at all silly.
Lloyd.
At 15:04 18/09/01 +1000, Zhasper wrote:
>check your path
>
>echo $PATH
>
>make sure that when you su to root, you use
>
>su -
>and not just
>su
>
>the former runs, eg, your login scripts, and so sets your $PATH to what
>you'd expect, while the latter merely changes your EUID, leaving you to
>change $PATH etc yourself
>
>I could comment on the sheer stupidity of (a) logging in over telnet, (b)
>going root over telnet, and (c) merely having telnet open at all, given
>recent problems with it... but i'm sure you're aware of how silly you're
>being, so i won't...
>
>On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Lloyd Bayley wrote:
>
> > Greetings people,
> >
> > Quick question...for some reason, I can no longer run system commands from
> > a telnet session from my windows box on the RH7.1 box.
> >
> > I log in as me, su to root and things like fdisk and ntsysv now say bash:
> > command not found.
> >
> > Have checked perms and all are set to root with the appropriate eXecute
> access.
> > (All programs I'm trying to run exist too btw) :)
> >
> > Is there a switch that has been flicked somewhere along the line to stop
> > telnet (remote) consoles running these system-critical programs?
> >
> > Many Thanks,
> >
> > Lloyd.
> >
> >
> >
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