On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 10:03:30AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > Axel Thimm wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 09:49:27PM -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: >>>> If you don't know how to find ifconfig and add it to >>>> your $PATH then you probably would just shoot yourself in the foot >>>> with it, if you don't know but are motivated you can certainly find >>>> this info easily enough. Our time on this earth is limited but its >>>> not that limited. >>> Actually, it is. Every day, lose six minutes from having to retype a >>> sudo line due to not having a PATH configured with sbin. Most likely >>> when you're already stressed that something is broken and you just want >>> to find out what as quickly as possible. >> >> If you know something is broken and you need to fix it then why use >> sudo on every call to something needing root privileges and not do the >> right thing and su -/sudo -i and diagnose and fix the problem? > > That fixes your PATH, but it breaks your working directory if you were > already in the right place. You only issue sudo -i/su - once, so copy-pasting the pwd output from before would be a one time act. And since you immediately sudo'd/su'd once you logged it you don't have to care about that problem anyway. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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