[TriLUG] Root problems

[Jeremy Portzer]

On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 13:48, William Gomeringer wrote:
> I have been running into a LOT of strange problems lately, but since I
> am running Debian unstable I guess I'm getting what I deserve. Anyway,
> I'm getting these errors when I try to run certain programs as root on a
> terminal only. 
> 
> dpkg: 'ldconfig' not found on PATH.
> dpkg: 'start-stop-daemon' not found on PATH.
> dpkg: 'install-info' not found on PATH.
> dpkg: 'update-rc.d' not found on PATH.
> 
> I have no problems when logged into X and I use Eterm and I haven't
> changed anything so these files are in my path.

Are you sure the path variable is correct?  What does "echo $PATH"
display on the terminal?  Does this happen with dpkg only, or other
programs too?

--Jeremy