Bug 121653 - services does not handle SU shell same as root login
Summary: services does not handle SU shell same as root login
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
Classification: Red Hat
Component: serviceconf
Version: 3.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Daniel Walsh
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Reported: 2004-04-24 17:21 UTC by John Nash
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2004-06-10 17:51:12 UTC
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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.
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