[olug] Path statement

[ktb]

On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 04:24:57PM -0600, Nathan Brown wrote:
> In my present install of Red Hat 7 I have a problem I did not have with
> previous installs of the same version .  Some programs such as FDISK or
> LILO and some others too will not load when I type fdisk or lilo in the
> command line.  
> I'm not familiar with anything that be like the path statement in DOS's
> Autoexec file, or is it the config sys.   Can't remember .. Is there
> something like that in Linux?  If there is something like this that I
> can write to what is it? 
> 

	Su to root and run them.  Sometimes you have to use the full
	path such as /sbin/lilo.  It is set that way for security reasons.
	hth,
	kent

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