What does echo $PATH give you?
If nothing check the users home directory and look in any ~/.bash* files
for a PATH setting. eg;
mark@bender:~$ echo $PATH
/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin
mark@bender:~$ ll .bash*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mark staff 3.0K 19 Jul 13:32 .bash_aliases
-rw------- 1 mark staff 14K 11 Aug 22:34 .bash_history
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mark staff 220B 17 Jul 19:59 .bash_logout
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mark staff 1.3K 25 Jul 12:02 .bash_profile
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mark staff 2.4K 18 Jul 18:11 .bashrc
mark@bender:~$ grep PATH .bash*
.bash_profile:# set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
.bash_profile: PATH=~/bin:"${PATH}"
.bash_profile:# do the same with MANPATH
.bash_profile:# MANPATH=~/man:"${MANPATH}"
.bash_profile:export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH
On 12 August 2012 11:37, <li...@sbt.net.au> wrote:
> I have this system that's seems to have lost path to binaries, that
> applies to just about every command I've tried
>
> executing with full path works OK ('whereis' executes OK)
>
> how/where to fix this ?
>
> # init 6
> bash: init: command not found
> # whereis init
> init: /sbin/init /etc/init.d /usr/share/man/man8/init.8.gz
> # /sbin/init 6
>
>
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