On Sat, 2010-11-13 at 18:09 -0500, bluethundr wrote: > hello list > > I'm having a very strange problem with my centos 5.5 system. For some > strange reason, this machine cannot find ldapsearch: > > [root at VIRTCENT13 ~]# ldapsearch > ldapsearch: Command not found. > > > [root at VIRTCENT13 ~]# whereis ldapsearch > ldapsearch: /usr/bin/ldapsearch /usr/share/man/man1/ldapsearch.1.gz > > ldapsearch currently lives at /usr/bin along with a lot of other > really very useful tools. > > > /usr/bin is also _clearly_ on my root path:i > > [root at VIRTCENT13 ~]# echo $PATH > /usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin > > And here are the permissions and modes for this tool: > > [root at VIRTCENT13 bin]# ls -l ldapsearch > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 65336 Aug 11 09:20 ldapsearch ---- given your 'echo $PATH' it should work... you might want to verify the package... [root at srv1 ~]# rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/bin/ldapsearch openldap-clients-2.3.43-3.el5 [root at srv1 ~]# rpm -V openldap-clients # Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.