Hello all,
Just curious if there is an interesting reason why the default paths selected in Ubuntu are selected? My appears as:
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
but I have been working on a redhat machine or two at work and noticed it is quite different. It will have directories such as /bin/ and /sbin/ etc..... I assume this is probably because these directories are intented for Root. If that is so, the confusing aspect is that if I run ifconfig which is located in /sbin/ifconfig, the binary is found without specifying the directory. How can that be if it is not in my PATH?
Cheers
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