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  From: Billy Constantine <billy@mecheng.adelaide.edu.au>
  To  : Peter Georgaras <pgeorgar@bigpond.net.au>
  Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 12:09:53 +0930 (CST)

Re: "root" vs. "su"

On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Peter Georgaras wrote:

PG> When I log in as user then "su" to root, I get "bash <command>: command not 
PG> found", however logged in as "root" all works as expected.

are you doing "su" or "su -"? just plain su leaves you with your old path
(which probably doesn't contain /sbin) ...
-- 
Billy Constantine
Computing Officer
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Adelaide University

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