HELP: A few commands not responding after upgrade to 5.3 from 5.2

[davidgjm]

Hi,

I just updated my CentOS machine from 5.2 to 5.3. After rebooting, I found a few commands are not responding after the update.

The non-responding commands are:
finger, groups,chown

I did nothing after the update. Please anyone can help me.

[jive_turkey]

I've noticed some issues where help articles cite using commands in prior versions that don't work on v5.3. In each case I have found that the command seems to have been moved from /bin to /usr/sbin.

Try doing $whereis to find the programs location. I've had some success making symlinks in /bin for the target in /sbin so that I don't have to type the /sbin/ prefix. There is probably a more global way to do it but I haven't tried for fear of more global side effects.

example:
[code]$ifconfig -a
bin/bash command not found [/code]

[code]$/sbin/ifconfig -a
<normal output>[/code]

I'm not sure why this was changed but it appears to have been recent (I just started on CentOS with v 5.3 so take my advice with a grain of salt).


I got around some of these by making symlinks but I don't claim that it is the correct thing to do. I haven't had any problem with it yet.

example for making a symlink for ifconfig
[code]# ln -s /sbin/ifconfig /bin/ifconfig[/code]

[pschaff]

echo "export PATH=$PATH:/usr/sbin:/sbin" >> ~/.bash_profile

but note that a lot of the sbin commands are primarily for use by root.