Path command

[Tom H]

On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Stephen <stephen_o at bell.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-05-03 at 08:31 +0100, Colin Law wrote:
>> On 3 May 2013 06:54, Stephen <stephen_o at bell.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> It seems like my path variable in Ubuntu 12.04 got corrupted some how.
>>> Programs that I used to start in a terminal are saying path not found or
>>> /dir/dir/dir/ is not in the path
>>>
>>> When I type path in the terminal it says path not found. I thought it was
>>> like dos and when you typed a variable in the terminal it told you what the
>>> setting for that variable is.
>>>
>>> Is there some way I can restore the path variable?
>>
>> echo $PATH
>> to see what it is
>
> The $PATH says: /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games
>
> It said it couldn't start Samba because /usr/sbin isn't in the path. I
> tried something I found on the Internet but it didn't work
> Name at Name:~$ Path=$PATH:/usr/sbin
> Name at Name:~$ export path
>
> But it didn't work.

PATH, Path, and path...

Use "sudo start smbd" or "sudo restart smbd" to start/restart samba
because you have to be root to use upstart.