Re: sudo: command: not found

[Greg Wooledge]

On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 06:14:56PM +0800, ???? wrote:
> run the command "drcomd" ,successful!
> 
> but run command "sudo drcomd" ,return "sudo : drcomd: command not found"

Not really a bash bug.

> under both (fedora)the PATH is
> /usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin

> it's really confusing!!!

What it sounds like to me, is that the "drcomd" command is in your PATH
when you login, but is not in the PATH that sudo uses, which I presume
is different.

First, you should find out where the command actually is, by doing:

  type -p drcomd

Then you might find it instructive to see what PATH sudo uses, by doing:

  sudo bash -c 'echo $PATH'

If I'm correct, you'll discover that the directory which contains drcomd
is not in the sudo PATH.

Configuring sudo to use a different PATH is a bit outside the scope of
a bash bug mailing list.  Depending on what OS and/or distribution you're
on, and what version of sudo you're using, there might be a line in
/etc/sudoers which is setting sudo's PATH, or there might have been a
compile-time override (Debian calls this "the SECURE_PATH build option").

Take a look at sudoers(5) and look for the "secure_path" option.  I think
that's what you want to set.

If you can't figure out how to configure sudo according to your needs,
then you could always use this:

  sudo "$(type -p drcomd)"

It's inconvenient, but it'll probably work.