can not get bash work out correctly in pendrivelinux, help!!!

kallekula · 10-15-2009, 02:50 AM

hi!

I am trying to learn how to do shell scripting and I am using pendrivelinux. I keep getting those messages like this when trying it out:

bash: sudo: command not found

Could it be something missing in the installation or wrong environmental settings or ????

please help!

i92guboj · 10-15-2009, 03:24 AM

sudo is not such a critical thing, and in an embedded system it's perfectly fine if it's not installed. I don't know if there's a way to install sudo no pendrivelinux (never heard of it anyway). It's possible that you are running as root by default (and in that case sudo would not be needed for anything). Or you could use su - as well.

Anyway, why do you need sudo to learn scripting?

Forrest Coredump · 10-15-2009, 03:29 AM

I would try the explicit path to the sudo command, i.e., /usr/bin/sudo

If the command works, then try: echo $PATH

Your should see something like the following:

/bin/:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/opt/bin

If you don't see anything, it's likely your $PATH variable isn't set, in which case you would want to edit your "/home/$username/.bash_profile" file and add something like the following:

PATH="/usr/bin":"/bin":"/usr/local/bin":`echo $PATH`