Why is it commands like ifconfig, finger,and route would not run in my path unless I preceded it with /sbin/finger, or /sbin/route etc. How do I permanently include it in my path.

These commands are not in a regular users path because they are system configuration commands. Some commands found in the /sbin/ directory must be run by the root user, so this directory is found only in the root users path.

You can add sbin to your users path by adding it to the the path statement in ~/bash_profile (~/bashrc on distributions that do not use ~/bash_profile).

HTH,

Ernie Registered Linux User 247790
ICQ 41060744

nano ~/.bashrc

(on the last line:)
export PATH=$PATH:/sbin:/usr/sbin

Josh Lange