Executing binaries in /usr/sbin/ seems to be broken
 

Dear fellow Linux users,

I am pretty new to the linux area so what I am trying to do is executing binary files in the /usr/sbin/ directory.

No matter what I do, if I want to execute any program at all I always get
Bash: command not found

I have tried nstat and many other programs but the same message shows up.

I am using Eeedora and logged me in as superuser.

Could anyone please help me, that would be very grateful!

If the dir is not in your PATH type:
./filename.bin to make it run.

To see your PATH type
echo $PATH

Thank you, it works. Awesome.

I thought my PATH was actually /usr/sbin but it turned out that this was not included at all. Why is it? And is there any possibility to add /usr/sbin to my PATH?

Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

Have a look here.

Don't forget to do it as root, otherwise (I think) you'll give user access to sbin!

BTW, as a matter of caution, are you really logged in as root or as user and then gone to su?

/usr/sbin contains binaries that normally would only be used by root. To use them, simply prefix the path eg
/usr/sbin/binary-you-want
Personally i wouldn't mess with the PATH var here, the arrangement is there for a reason.

I started as a user, but switch in the beginning of the procedure to su. Is that a sufficient answer to your question?

Okay, thank you for your advise.