sysreport - command not found
 

If someone could please point a new user in the correct direction, any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

I attempted to run sysreport from a terminal window but received the message: bash: sysreport: command not found.

sysreport is installed at: [user@localhost sbin]$ whereis sysreport
sysreport: /usr/sbin/sysreport /usr/share/sysreport

[user@localhost sbin]$ rpm -qa | grep sysreport
sysreport-1.3.15-5

I tried changing directory locations, but received the same message command not found.

I also attempted to run the command from a terminal window as root, but encounter the same error message.

How do I run the sysreport?

Running RHEL WS 4 - Update 2.
[user@localhost ~]$ uname -r
2.6.9-22.ELsmp

Any help would be appreciated.

TIA - dwdrumrboy

being in sbin it means it's an app that is only generally run by a root like user. not necessarily permissions, just convention. as such the /usr/sbin directory would only be on root's path, and if you're not su-ing correctly or such like then the path won't be updated for root. so you can either use /usr/sbin/sysreport directly or use a root login to access it

sysreport - command not found
 

Thanks for the feedback, much appreciated.

I su as root, cd to sbin, ls -la, but I do not see an executibable or script named sysreport?

[root@localhost sbin]# ls -la sys*
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 11028 Jul 19 07:26 sysctl
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 32188 Jan 4 2005 syslogd

But when I rpm grep or up2date sysreport, the system tells me it is installed.

Is there a service that needs to be started?

Thanks

a service?? how on earth would a service make a binary execuatble appear?? :confused:

the rpm command states it's in /usr/sbin/ so just run /usr/sbin/sysreport then. if that doesn'ty work, then the rpm isn't installed right, and somethign went wrong.

sysreport - command not found
 

Thanks - got sysreport to run successfully. I had to log in as root and run the command, su'ing as root didn't work.

Thanks.