On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 22:37 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Wednesday 31 January 2007 19:59, Beartooth wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 21:12:42 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Tuesday 30 January 2007 20:52, Beartooth wrote:
> >> lsmod from a root prompt gets me "bash: lsmod: command not
found"
>
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> > That's typical of what you get when you try it as user. Have you tried
> > it as root?
>
> Actually, I keep two tabs on my terminal (with background color
> contrasting to the default!) permanently signed on to root, one at / and
> one at /home/btth for things I do in that directory.
>
> I didn't c&p from there only because the problem machine, not seeing even
> the router, gives me no way I've yet found to use c&p to another machine
> that does access the Net. (Its K3B doesn't recognize my CD drive as a
> burner, and I haven't actually used a floppy for so long I don't remember
> how.)
>
> But I did mean the phrase "from a root prompt" to imply that that machine
> shows me exactly what, as a matter of fact, I also get on the biggest
> newest one, which I'm using now :
>
> [root@localhost btth]# lspci
> bash: lspci: command not found
> [root@localhost btth]# lsmod
> bash: lsmod: command not found
> [root@localhost btth]#
>
Sorry - somehow I missed that.
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as user...
echo $PATH
/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/java/jre/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/NX/bin
as user that performs 'su'
/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/java/jre/bin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/java/jre/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/NX/bin:/usr/NX/bin
as user that performs 'su -' # note the dash
/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/java/jre/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/NX/bin:/root/bin
Note that each is different and it is an important difference...
# which lspci lsmod
/sbin/lspci
/sbin/lsmod
and /sbin path (and for that matter, /usr/sbin path) is only available
to the user who performs the command 'su -'
Craig