/sbin and /usr/sbin not visible "globaly" in conso

Riklaunim · Apprentice Joined: 16 Dec 2004 Posts: 286 Location: Poland

I've made a typical gentoo stage3 install from another distro, after it emerged I've killed the old distro and moved gentoo to / (livecd, root, mc) now everything works without /sbin and /usr/sbin problem. As root in console something like env-update won't work (command not found) (but /usr/sbin/env-update works) it's for all apps in /sbin and /usr/sbin

a symlink got killed or is it something else ?
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SinoTech · Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 1:01 pm Post subject:

The $PATH variable gets set when processing "/etc/profile" (The file gets processed when login). But it doesn't includes "/sbin" and "/usr/sbin" for normal users (Just for root). So if you switch to root using "su", you've also to process "/etc/profile". You can do that one of three ways:

1. Login as root

2. If logged in as normal user and switching to root by using su, use the "-" switch:

Riklaunim · Apprentice Joined: 16 Dec 2004 Posts: 286 Location: Poland

ok, it works

thanks
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