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on Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 05:22:02PM +0800, Matthew Healey wrote:
> At first it thought it was a path issue, but everything seems to be  
> right there as well.
> 
>     chloe:~ root# ssh inky.mur.wocwa.com echo $PATH

The error is that $PATH is being expanded on chloe, not inky.
Try
    chloe:~ root# ssh inky.mur.wocwa.com echo '$PATH'