[PLUG] 2.6.19 or later, amd64

[Jason Martin]

On 3/26/07, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> wrote:
> > > And that reminds me of another thing that would make my life easier.
> > > How can I fix Fedora so I don't have to type /sbin/ in front of just
> > > about every command? That is getting tiresome. A link? (Not an expert
> > > on links.) A dos-like path statement? If so, where does it go?
>
> > cd to your home dir and then edit or add the file .bash_login
> >
> > in that file type the following
> >
> > export PATH=$PATH:/sbin
> >
> > save the file and then when you open a new terminal you should be good to
> > go, if don't want to close and re-open a terminal you can type
> >
> > source .bash_login and you'll be good to go.
>
> Thanks. That doesn't work -- if I open a new terminal it still doesn't
> let me type commands that are in /sbin. But it does work if I first type
> source .bash_login.

You need to log out of the graphical session and log back in to get it
to take effect in new terminal windows.

Jason