Re: question about fdisk

This is weird, maybe your it's that boxes are setup as servers and and
my box is workstation.
My workstation at home is FC4. It's slowly been upgraded 1 step at a
time from about RH 7.2 or 7.3. /sbin/<whatever> is not in the users
path, it is in root's. I've never modified the path that I can recall.

echo $PATH as user gives:
/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/jimg/bin

as root gives:
/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/root/bin

Lately I've been playing with SuSE and Gentoo, but ask anyone at Friday
Linux, I've been a regular RH user since 6.1. I don't remember ever
having to add /sbin when logged in as root. Only as user.

Joshua Kugler wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 October 2005 18:33, Greg Madden wrote:
>
>>On Wednesday 12 October 2005 06:27 pm, Bob Crowe wrote:
>>
>>>Howdy,
>>> I have FC3 (I gave up on FC4...I think I have a corrupted disk) and
>>>I'm trying to check out the fdisk utility. I open a terminal, log in as
>>>superuser than enter "fdisk /dev/hda" and I get this message "bash:
>>>fdisk: command not found" I thought fdisk came automatically with FC3?
>>>Does anyone have any suggestions? Also I used this site to setup my FC3
>>>reinstallation and it solved a lot of problems for me including my
>>>multimedia playability, it also has a guide for FC4 for those that are
>>>interested. Take care, Bob.
>>>
>>>http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_3_installation_notes.html
>>
>>It might be a PATH issue, have you tried '/sbin/fdisk' ? That is needed on
>>some distro I looked at once, long ago, far away. 'whereis fdisk' might
>>tell you where it is located.
>
>
> That seems to be a "left over" from the Redhat way of doing things. /sbin
> and /usr/sbin are never in root's PATH. Why? I have no idea. All my other
> boxes (Mandrake and CentOS) have the sbin's in root's path, and whenever I
> get on a Redhat box (we have two left over that we haven't upgraded) it
> sometimes takes me 15 seconds to realize why I can't find any commands. :)
>
> j----- k-----
>

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Received on Thu Oct 13 23:03:22 2005