The commands reboot, dhclient, usermod, etc. do not work in Linux Debian10 on VirtualBox
I installed Debian 10 on VirtualBox 6. I made an apt update - everything seems to have passed the norms. Next, under root, I try to get the address, dns, and gateway:
dhclient
- "comand not found"
Similarly, with the commands reboot, usermod.
I tried to search for them through whereis-search for them.
I can't understand why the commands don't work?
2 answers
From $ man su:
-,-l,--login
...
initializes the environment variables HOME, SHELL, USER, LOGNAME, and PATH
Without specifying this option, the PATH environment variable remains the same value that a" normal " user does not include directories./sbin, /usr/sbin and /usr/local/sbin.
And the programs you have just listed are located in these directories.
Therefore, either add the mentioned option when executing the program su:
$ su -l <другие аргументы>
Or specify the full path to the programs located in the directories /sbin, /usr/sbin and /usr/local/sbin:
# /usr/sbin/usermod <аргументы>
Debian does not transmit */sbin/ to PATH when entering via sudo or via root.
Quick fix and starts working
source /etc/profile
And so copy
cp /etc/profile /root/.profile
Or describe the new /root/.profile without forgetting to load the PATH variable with the paths */sbin/