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Bug 121653

Summary:	services does not handle SU shell same as root login
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3	Reporter:	John Nash <promotions>
Component:	serviceconf	Assignee:	Daniel Walsh <dwalsh>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	3.0	CC:	shillman
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Description John Nash 2004-04-24 17:21:05 UTC

Description of problem: services does not handle SU shell same as root
login

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): current,
RH Enterprise AS


How reproducible: very


Steps to Reproduce:
0. Login with a user account
1. Open Terminal
2. Shell to SU
3. CD to /etc/samba
4. type "service smb restart"
5. see error message "bash: service: command not found"
6. logoff
7. logon as root
8. follow above steps
9. see smb shutdown and restart.
  
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Comment 1 Suzanne Hillman 2004-04-28 17:56:22 UTC

Did you 'su -', or 'su'? The former will pick up path information from
root, the latter will use your user account's path information.