New to Linux

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

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On Wed, 1 Oct 2003 12:33:41 -0400 (EDT)
"Timothy M. Lyons" <lyons at digitalvoodoo.org> wrote:

> Alaric,
> 
> Are you using 'su' or 'su -'?
> 
> 'su -' makes the shell a login shell and provides all the necessary
> environment modifications (path/custom variables) available to you.
> 
> Without the hyphen, you maintain the current user environment.
> 
> --Tim
> 
> 
> Alaric said:
> > at it, and it told me "file not found" this was done as a SU. I'm
> > feeling
> >
As a regular user, /sbin and /usr/sbin are not in your path. chkconfig
is in the /sbin directory.

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