Hello people,

I use FC3.
I have a service:command not found problem.
Other commands like chkconfig are also missing.I think I've goofed up the installation a bit.How do I correct this?
IF the solution is mounting one of the FC3 cds..which one to use and how to go about it?

Thanks in advance.

Just a check: do you mean that if you "su" to root and try to do "chkconfig" or something like that, you get a "command not found" error? In that case everything is all right (if you log in as root: press ctrl+alt+f2 for example, and log in there, it should work). Fedora has, for some reason, different $PATH variable for root user and other users; therefore the sbin/ directories are not found on regular user's $PATH variables, and if you "su" to root (and not login really) you'll need to give the full path to the command, for example
instead of just 'chkconfig'. Try if it helps.

well i'd say it's for a *ery* good security reason... normal users have no business messing with things in /sbin, whether they can run them or not, it's none of their business. of course other than logging in fresh, just use "su -" instad of plain old "su" and things will work fine too.

Seems bizarre .While su didnt work,su - did.Thanx!

Not bizarre at all - su retains your current PATH, which doesn't have /sbin in it. su - sources root's profile so you get a PATH variable with /sbin in it, hence you can now find those binaries. The thing to remember with UNIX/Linux is that anything you can't explain is because you can't explain it, not because something bizarre is happening.

ANYTHING???!!! I'd be willing to bet that this is not a universal truth. First, it has been my experience that computers are not 100% deterministic. Second, Linux is full of long-standing Unix traditions, many of which have NO relevance to a casual desktop user---and it often takes a bit of digging to get a plausible explanation.

If I were to keep all the goodness of Linux, but simply organize things to be much simpler--optimizing for the application where 4 user accounts would be the upper limit--then it would be a veryy different picture. (I won't do this, by the way, because I value the universal nature of the OS---the fact that everyone on the planet has more or less the same picture of how things are organized..)

Maybe not a universal truth, but it's good guidance for newbies.