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Path: sserve!euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!news.mindlink.net!vanbc.wimsey.com!cynic.portal.ca!curt From: curt@cynic.portal.ca (Curt Sampson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: chown command not working??? Date: 12 Aug 1995 17:30:33 GMT Organization: Internet Portal Services, Ltd. Lines: 18 Message-ID: <40iofp$o41@wolfe.wimsey.com> References: <40gkes$qv9@news.cais.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: cynic.portal.ca In article <40gkes$qv9@news.cais.com>, <eruck@ahoynet.com> wrote: >I cannot seem to get chown to work from anything other than the direct >console, if I go in via another terminal as SU it tells me bad >command... Probably /usr/sbin is not in your path as a user, and you use `su' instead of `su -l' to become superuser. Set up /root/.profile (or whatever, depending on the shell you use) to have a safe path (don't let "." in it, for example), umask, etc. Then use `su -l' to become root. cjs -- Curt Sampson curt@portal.ca Info at http://www.portal.ca/ Internet Portal Services, Inc. Vancouver, BC (604) 257-9400 De gustibus, aut bene aut nihil.