wget question: was Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Broken calendar in Evolution

[Michael Patrick]

On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 12:39:23AM -0500, Wayne Dahl wrote:
> 
> On the other hand, I do have a legitimate question about wget.  When I
> went to use wget from the directions on the Ximian website, of course I
> opened a terminal window and su'd to root, then attempted wget -p -O -
> etc for the Ximian download site and got an error that bash couldn't
> find wget.  I was in my home directory and thinking bash couldn't find
> the wget command, I did a locate for it, found it in /usr/bin, so I cd'd
> to /usr/bin and ran it just fine from there.  This tells me it isn't in
> the path for root to find it, correct?  Or is this too much from the
> Windoze camp?  If it's not in the path, where do you add it to the path
> statement?  I know where to go to find it in Windoze, but not so in
> Linux.  This is actually the first time I've run across this problem
> since I've started running Linux...and oh, this is a RH 8.0 box.
>

The path gets defined (at least on this FreeBSD machine) in the .bash_profile file in the home directory for the user.  RH is probably similar.  If you do the command "set" from the command line one of the values dumped is the current path.

Michael