Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3996 mails)

[Sid Boyce <sboyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Carlos E. R. wrote:
> The 2004-09-16 at 09:55 -0700, Bahram Alinezhad wrote:
>  
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> > 5- When I login to a user other than root, and use "su
> > root" or open a root shell in order to run some
> > commands located in /usr/local/bin, I get the error of
> > "command not found"! I have to type the full path! A
> > problem that there is somehow in redhat but not so bad
> > as this.
If "echo $PATH" is done as root, /usr/local/bin is not in the path for 
root, that's SuSE's way of doing Linux. In order to have any other paths 
available, edit /root/.bashrc and add a line
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:</whatever_path>

The new paths will be picked up on boot up, but can be activated 
immediately by ". ~/.bashrc" or "source ~/.bashrc" as root.
Each distro does its own thing, whether right or wrong, the differences 
once learned are minor and easy to handle. There are certain things I do 
with Mandrake to make it pretty much the same to work with as SuSE, 
mainly with aliases in ~/.bashrc.
Regards
Sid.

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