I've noted that in order to use commands like ifconfig, I have to prefix the commands with the directory.
/etc/profile shows that the paths should be part of the PATH environment variable; any idea where the bug is?
# /etc/profile
# System wide environment and startup programs, for login setup
# Functions and aliases go in /etc/bashrc
pathmunge () {
if ! echo $PATH | /bin/egrep -q "(^|
$1($|
" ; then
if [ "$2" = "after" ] ; then
PATH=$PATH:$1
else
PATH=$1:$PATH
fi
fi
}
# ksh workaround
if [ -z "$EUID" -a -x /usr/bin/id ]; then
EUID=`id -u`
UID=`id -ru`
fi
# Path manipulation
if [ "$EUID" = "0" ]; then
//what does this mean?
pathmunge /sbin
pathmunge /usr/sbin
pathmunge /usr/local/sbin
fi
# No core files by default
ulimit -S -c 0 > /dev/null 2>&1
if [ -x /usr/bin/id ]; then
USER="`id -un`"
LOGNAME=$USER
MAIL="/var/spool/mail/$USER"
fi
HOSTNAME=`/bin/hostname`
HISTSIZE=1000
if [ -z "$INPUTRC" -a ! -f "$HOME/.inputrc" ]; then
INPUTRC=/etc/inputrc
fi
export PATH USER LOGNAME MAIL HOSTNAME HISTSIZE INPUTRC
for i in /etc/profile.d/*.sh ; do
if [ -r "$i" ]; then
. $i
fi
done
unset i
unset pathmunge
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echo $PATH
/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/java/jdk1.5.0_16/bin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/home/sinfo/bin
does not include /sbin