As a regular user, your $PATH doesn't contain /sbin, which is where those
programs are found.  When you use "su", you gain root abilities, but you
still have your old $PATH.  If you instead use "su -" then you'll get
root's $PATH.  You could also modify your $HOME/.bash_profile and add
/sbin to the PATH.  Then to reload the .bash_profile, type:
source .bash_profile
~M



On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Michael Havens wrote:

> Jim, I got home after the newbies meeting with renewed hope that IO was going
> to get my soundcard working properly. The first thing I did (out of
> curiosity) is type lspci into a terminal.
>
> [bmike1@localhost bmike1]$ lspci
> bash: lspci: command not found
>
> What? It doesn't work!
> So I switched to SU
>
> [root@localhost bmike1]# lspci
> bash: lspci: command not found
>
> What? It still doesn't work?
> So I checked the man file on it but nothing appeared to be wrong. So I
> thought that it was fine as long as sndconfig worked
>
> [root@localhost /]# sndconfig
> bash: sndconfig: command not found
>
> So I checked the man file on it as well and again, everything appeared
>  normal. So I switched to the etc directory.
>
> [root@localhost etc]# sndconfig
> bash: sndconfig: command not found
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> --
> :-)~Mike~(-:
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