[Westwales] A couple of questions (part Deux)

[Jonathan West]

On Sat, 8 Feb 2003, Telsa Gwynne wrote:


> /sbin is in root's path, but other users aren't expected to need
> to run things from there too often, so it's not generally in 
> other users' paths. Same gones for /usr/sbin.
> 
> If you use "su" to turn into root, you keep your own environment
> and so you'll still need to give pathnames for things on root's
> path which aren't on users' paths.
> 
> If you use "su -" to turn into root, you get root's environment
> and so you don't need to type /sbin/ in front of commands which 
> live in there.
> 
> "sudo ifconfig" has the same problem: you want "sudo /sbin/ifconfig"
> instead.
> 
> I snipped all the rest: I know nothing about java :) 
> 
> Telsa
Thanks Telsa,
the  "su -" is good to know,I'd never really got around to working out why 
sometimes a command is in the path and sometimes not.
Jon