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Dinosaw

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Registered: 2010-08-12

Posts: 11

[solved]Various commands no longer found

Commands such as iwconfig and wpa_supplicant can no longer be found, however typing the full command eg. /usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant does still work.
From what i have found halt, reboot, telinit and the wireless_tools/wpa_supplicant are the only commands that no longer work, but they could be more.

This happened after setting inittab to start X at boot and uninstalling slim, but i can't think how this would be related.

Thanks
Dinosaw

Last edited by Dinosaw (2010-11-29 21:35:07)

Cyrusm

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From: Bozeman, MT

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Re: [solved]Various commands no longer found

what do you get when you echo $PATH ?

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falconindy

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Re: [solved]Various commands no longer found

You're starting X without starting a login shell. Thus, your PATH is never correctly set by /etc/profile. You'll need to wrap your startx command in a bash login shell, inside the /bin/su call. Something along the lines of...

/bin/su -l userfoo -c 'bash -l -c startx'

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Dinosaw

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Registered: 2010-08-12

Posts: 11

Re: [solved]Various commands no longer found

You're starting X without starting a login shell. Thus, your PATH is never correctly set by /etc/profile. You'll need to wrap your startx command in a bash login shell, inside the /bin/su call. Something along the lines of...

/bin/su -l userfoo -c 'bash -l -c startx'

This worked, thanks!