I have just recently installed RHEL 5. I am in the process of updating my system, when I ran into a fairly weird situation. Many commands weren't working.

The following is just one example, but it works for most commands.

I could enter something like "man useradd" and the manual would come up. I could also use "locate useradd" and it would give me /usr/sbin/useradd. The problem is that when I actually type "useradd" I get "bash: useradd: command not found."

But if I go to /usr/sbin/ and type "./useradd" the command works fine.

What is the problem?

Does "echo $PATH | grep '/usr/sbin'" produce any output? If root, maybe your path got screwed up somehow. If unprivileged user, it wouldn't generally be on your path, anyway.

Awesome!!

i entered "PATH=/usr/sbin:$PATH" as root and now they work.

Thank you.