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Re: How do I set up sudo..



On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 09:40:45PM -0800, Alou Dialy wrote:
> It is etch. The problem is with the commands that as a
> normal user it tells me, command not found. So when I
> sudo it still cannot find them. Why can I only find
> these commands as root. Commands like dpkg-reconfigure
> and sysctl.

They will be in either /sbin or /usr/sbin which are in root's path.
OTOH, most discussions of sudo tell you to use the full path, so rather
than 

$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure debconf

it would be 

$ sudo /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure debconf

Doug.


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