Terminal: bash

[Berticus]

I have a small problem. Some of the bash commands don't seem to be working. Such as telinit and ifconfig. I haven't tried other commands, but I'm afraid that this might cause some problems.

Should I reformat, or are there other alternatives? I tried uninstalling it, but yum said there was a dependence problem. So I couldn't do that.

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I should probably tell what's happening. Well in the terminal, when I type in "ifconfig" as root, I get:

Originally Posted by GNOME Terminal

[root@berticus albert]# ifconfig
bash: ifconfig: command not found
[root@berticus albert]#

Then when I do "telinit 5," I get:

Originally Posted by GNOME Terminal

[root@berticus albert]#telinit 5
bash: telinit: command not found
[root@berticus albert]#

[jtang613]

Try:

/sbin/ifconfig
/sbin/telinit 5

The /sbin and /usr/sbin are not in the path unless you login as root (instead of su'ing to root).

hth,
Jason

[BostonWatcher]

Do you have /sbin in your path? In a common installation those 2 programs reside in /sbin/. What happens when you do '/sbin/ifconfig' as root?

[Berticus]

Ah. I thought I could just switch user to root...

/sbin/ thing works! Thanks.

[bytesniper]

you can also su to root using: su - (with the dash...short for su --login) it sets up a complete environment for root including, among other things, putting /sbin and /usr/sbin in the $PATH.