Commands in sbin
 

I am fairly new to Linux, but have had a bit of experience in Debian Linux. I am now trying out the new Fedora 7 and having a few problems. Normally when I want to run a command such as I can just run it by typing as root and it works. However, in Fedora 7, I am having to type in order for it to work. This is also true for any common commands. I was wondering if there was a way that I can change this so that I can just type the command like normal.

You need to be root for the command to work anyway. You could add /sbin/ to your path, but it may be better to leave it as it is and run the command like "sudo /sbin/modprobe ...".

Normal user commands aren't in /sbin. There are some user commands in /usr/bin. Make sure that that is in your path.

Thanks. I found out that if I log in as root from the login screen everything works as it should, but if I log on as my username and then open terminal and login to root using su then it doesnt work, so I guess I'll just log in as root when I need to perform those commands.

You can use to switch to root's environment.

that's how I was originally doing it by using but I was having the same problem, but as long as I login as root from the login screen, then it works correctly. Not sure why, but I can live with it. Thanks anyways though!

Look again.
That's su 'minus.' Don't forget the space.

No, they aren't the same. "su -" starts an interactive shell, so root's environmen, so root's ~/.profile script is run, setting up root's PATH variable. Simply using "su", you are running as root, but in your own environment.

Ohh ok! Thanks, that works so much better! Sorry, I'm new at this!