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How To Fix Command Not Found Error in Linux?: (Chia) $ Echo $PATH

The document discusses how to troubleshoot the "command not found" error in Linux by checking the PATH environment variable to ensure the command directory is included, using the which command to find the path of a specific command, and noting that su without - may not load the full environment of the target user.

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How To Fix Command Not Found Error in Linux?: (Chia) $ Echo $PATH

The document discusses how to troubleshoot the "command not found" error in Linux by checking the PATH environment variable to ensure the command directory is included, using the which command to find the path of a specific command, and noting that su without - may not load the full environment of the target user.

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How to fix Command Not Found error in Linux?

Command Not Found is a most common error in Linux, it means that your system has searched for the command everywhere but couldn't find it. Well, its not really everywhere, there are some specific places where the system searches for the command. This is all done using the PATH environment variable. Commands are scripts and binary executables. PATH environment variable contains paths of various directories, where your system looks for these executables. In order to take a look at the $PATH variable in your system, run the following command in a terminal. [chia]$ echo $PATH /usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/sbin:/home/chia/bin A typical $PATH should look something like above. The value can vary from distro to distro but its more or less similar. As you can see it contains the directories where one can commonly find various binary executables of installed softwares - /bin, /usr/bin, /sbin etc. So, when you actually run a command on your system, the command is looked upon in all the directories mentioned in PATH until a match occurs. Find the path of your command To check the path of your command type [chia]$ which COMMAND_NAME [chia]$ which vim /usr/bin/vim [chia]$ which ls /bin/ls Command not found even on su? You might have faced a command not found error even when you su as root and you know you have that command in your bin directories for root. There is a difference between su and su -. When you login as root without the dash. Your login path remains

[root@localhost anyweb]# And when you login with dash [root@localhost root]# the - makes su execute .login .loginrc and so on for the user you "su" into. Typing only 'su' will not load the environment of the user you are changing to. it will merely substitute your UID and GID. [chia@localhost ~]$ su [root@localhost chia]# chkconfig bash: chkconfig: command not found But if you do su (with dash) [chia@localhost ~]$ su [root@localhost root]# chkconfig NetworkManager 0:off abrtd acpid atd auditd 0:off 0:off 0:off 0:off 1:off 1:off 1:off 1:off 1:off 2:on 2:off 2:on 2:off 2:on 3:on 3:on 3:on 3:on 3:on 4:on 4:off 4:on 4:on 4:on 5:on 5:on 5:on 5:on 5:on 6:off 6:off 6:off 6:off 6:off

forgot my "SU" password

Hello friends, I created root password. But when i type "su" and then password, but my result is below one Code:

sharief@sharief-desktop:/$ su Password: su: Authentication failure sharief@sharief-desktop:/$


Now i dont know how to retrieve the password or how to rest the password...Can anyone help m

This is not a supported way of doing things. Ubuntu does not have a root password by default. If you need to accomplish something as root, enter Code:

sudo -i
in the terminal. No worries, though. You can easily disable the root account again: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Ro...r root account

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