On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 12:49 PM, Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> On Wed, June 11, 2008 12:46 pm, Carl Lowenstein wrote:
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>> By the way, the "locate" command is really helpful in cases like this,
>> if the locate database has been built on your system, normally it is
>> re-built around 4AM on a system that is running.
>>
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> ... as is tab completion. But that depends on having /sbin and /usr/sbin
> in your path ... IOW, being root.
As I recall, the origin of this thread was "bash: useradd: command not found"
which is nearly always an indication of a path problem if you haven't
misspelled the command name.
Locate(1) tends to locate things by name regardless of where they
might happen to be. Just now, as a non-privileged user, running on
Fedora 9, "locate useradd" found a number of things.
/usr/sbin/useradd as expected, but also /usr/sbin/luseradd. For
adding lusers, I suppose.
carf
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