help with sudo and path
Mark Haney
mhaney at ercbroadband.org
Tue Aug 12 17:50:04 UTC 2008
SwampYankee wrote:
> Hi,
> I am trying to run nethack wizard mode but when I do so using sudo the
> path can not be found. So, if I type nethack, no problem However, I
> enter sudo -s, provide the password and type 'nethack' I get this:
>
> Command 'nethack' is available in '/usr/games/nethack'
> The command could not be located because '/usr/games' is not included in
> the PATH environment variable.
>
> What can I do to run this as sudo?
> thanks
>
The down and dirty way? Add it to the PATH. Or, use the full path
name: sudo -s <password> /usr/games/nethack
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