mkswap gives command not found error

yoojamu · 12-12-2008, 01:19 PM

Hi Freinds,

I am using oracle enterprise linux 5.2

I was trying to add some extra swap space. but when i use mkswap its giving me command not found error.

looking forward to your supporting

Thanks in advance

hasanatizaz · 12-12-2008, 01:30 PM

you need to do it from the user "root"

yoojamu · 12-12-2008, 01:37 PM

I used su and changed to root then did it. Am i supposed to login as root and do it?

jailbait · 12-12-2008, 01:53 PM

On some distributions su root has a different PATH than logging in as root. Thus the mkswap command might be found as root but not as su root. Try logging in as root to run mkswap. Or you can find mkswap and give the full path to the command in su root.

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hasanatizaz · 12-12-2008, 01:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by yoojamu

I used su and changed to root then did it. Am i supposed to login as root and do it?

post the output of which mkswap from root

michaelk · 12-12-2008, 01:59 PM

su will still use the current users path environment
su - will use root's path environment.

hasanatizaz · 12-12-2008, 02:10 PM

thanks for pointing that out, i just tried it and found you are right - usually inherits the ~ directory but i didnt know about the path :-)