[mythtv-users] LIRC help

Shawn Asmussen asmussen at cox.net
Sat Aug 14 02:06:48 EDT 2004


> On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:14:33 -0500, aslong at uark.edu <aslong at uark.edu>
> wrote:
>> [root at localhost mythtv]# lsmod |grep lirc
>> bash: lsmod: command not found
>
> lsmod lives in /sbin, so it'd be
> # /sbin/lsmod | grep lirc
>
> Odd that /sbin isn't in root's PATH.  Is that a Fedora thing?

The most likely explaination is that he became the root user using the su
command and did not use the "-" to make the shell a login shell. In that
case, his path still be the same as the path of the user who he originally
logged in as, which probably would not have /sbin included.

Shawn Asmussen


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