On Sat, November 6, 2010 4:26 pm, Bernie Pannell wrote:

> How did you get to your root shell session?  If you "su" it doesn't
> load in root's .bash_profile & setup the normal PATH for root.
>
> Try "su -" (su space dash) instead, which does load root's profile &
> should setup the PATH to include /sbin in your PATH.

Bernie,

thanks !!
somehow, I must've, at some point in the past, omitted the '-'...
and, I was like ssh/login/up key/enter...
so, I kept repeating a typo (and I didn't know the significance of '-')

thanks again



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