On Sat, January 13, 2007 8:43 pm, Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote: > Hi all, > > Usually I work in X environment (XCFE) with extensive use of x terminal; > concretely, I use Gnome-terminal. > Sometimes I change to root to do some admin tasks. But often it seems a > few commands are not availables. The key is in the $PATH value: > > echo $PATH (in login shell, interactive ): > /usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/root/bin > > echo $PATH (in gnome-terminal, no-login interactive shell): > /usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/jordi/bin > > The last path in $PATH variable shows me that the problem would be the > gnome-terminal doesn't update correclty the $PATH when I change to root > through "su" command. > > ¿What do you think about? > > TIA. > su - will do the trick.