sbin and /usr/sbin is not normally placed into the path of a regular user. You can execute any Unix command by specifying it's full path: /sbin/lilo for instance. The reason for this is that /sbin and /usr/sbin are normally used for system management.
On 16 Apr 2002 at 8:28, Michael Bovee wrote: > Well, the encouraging replies from Derek M., Dan C., and Benjamin S. > have turned my frown upside down! (thanks for tolerating my whiney > tone yesterday) > > Simply put, my PATH is really hosed up! /sbin nowhere to be found. No > wonder I've been having so much trouble! But let me back up briefly > and provide info that may be useful for troubleshooters: > > I got into the linux biz out of the need for a research software app > called UltraScan, referred to as just <us> on the CLI. So, yeah, > unfortunately I do not have much unix experience. But as the heart > of MacOS X indicates, unix IS the foreseeable future of personal > computer operating systems, and so I want and need to learn how to > use it in some form. At least a working familiarity so that I can get > work done. I'm actually excited about learning how to use it, just > not when I can't even get a simple command to work :0) > > The writer of the 'us' software developed it for intel machines, so > he has bent over backwards by helping configure it on my PPC machine, > because there have been many unexpected hurdles to getting it working > right. In fact, there is still a problem with how it displays graphs > on the screen. Might require a recompile of X or something, I have > been told. > > Anyway, after all the work he did on my machine (cross-country, via > the net) it looks like a bunch of crap has piled up in my PATH so I'm > looking for advice on how best to prune it. Maybe I'm doing something > unintentionally to cause all the duplication? (see below) > > <echo $PATH> returns the following info -- (linebreaks chosen for > clarity, I hope) > > /usr/local/us/bin:/usr/local/qt/bin:/usr/local/us/bin: > /usr/local/us/bin:/usr/local/qt/bin:/usr/local/us/bin: > /usr/local/us/bin:/usr/local/qt/bin:/usr/local/us/bin: > /usr/local/us/bin:/usr/local/qt/bin:/usr/local/us/bin: > /usr/local/us/bin:/usr/local/qt/bin:/usr/local/us/bin: > /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/bin:/usr/games/bin: > /usr/games:/opt/gnome/bin:/opt/ked2/bin:.:/opt/gnome/bin: > /local/qmake/bin:/usr/local/tmake/bin:/local/qmake/bin: > /usr/local/tmake/bin:/local/qmake/bin:/usr/local/tmake/bin: > local/qmake/bin:/usr/local/tmake/bin:/local/qmake/bin: > /usr/local/tmake/bin > > > Clearly a horrible mess! I have been using KDE for desktop mgr, so I > don't guess I need any gnome stuff, and I havent been using linux for > games, so I don't think that needs to be there. (Although another > linuxhead here was showing me BZFlag netplay, which was pretty cool, > and I thought it might be fun to get that working as a learning > experience!) > > I am using BASH shell. > The command I was trying to run yesterday, cardmgr, was easily and > quickly found with whereis and locate when logged in as a regular > user. 'which' only worked as root, and 'find' took too long to > bother with but it did work. cardmgr was found in /sbin/cardmgr. > > So from Dan Coutu's reply, it looks like my PATH should start off > with, or at least include, /sbin, /usr/bin, /bin, and /usr/bin. And > I do want to keep one copy of /usr/local/us/bin but that can/should > go at the end, right? > > Can I just trash this whole path and re-write it? > > Thanks for all your kind and thorough advice! > --Michael > -- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > Michael L. Bovee, Ph.D. > Postdoctoral Fellow > University of Vermont > Department of Biochemistry > B403 Given Building > Burlington, VT 05405-0068 > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://biochem.uvm.edu > Lab 802-656-0345 > FAX 802-862-8229 > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > ***************************************************************** > To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. > ***************************************************************** -- Jerry Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Associate Director Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9 ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
