I have a weird problem, unfortuantely I don't know what I did to cause this, since I tried out lots of stuff on my Linux (Archlinux, 2.6.38 kernel).The problem is: My shell is not finding programs in /sbin anymore. It looks like this:[chris@myhost ~] insmodbash: insmod: command not found[chris@myhost ~] ls -l /sbin/insmod-rwxr-x-r-x root root 7888 Mar 23 10:14 /sbin/insmod[chris@myhost ~] /sbin/insmod-- WorksSo as you can see, the program (the problem occurs for every executable in sbin) is still there, I can start it using /sbin/name, only the short name alias seems to be corrupted. How can I fix this?
Aliases for programs in /sbin/
linux;shell;alias
This is not about aliases.  It's controlled by the PATH environment variable.On many systems, root has /sbin and /usr/sbin in PATH, but normal users don't.If you want to type insmod etc without typing the full path, you can putPATH=$PATH:/sbinin your shell settings file (e.g. .bashrc in your home directory).Or you could look at /etc/profile, /etc/environment, /etc/login.defs and see how it's setting PATH and change it there.A quick way to find which file(s) to look in is running grep -R PATH /etc (or grep -HIRn PATH /etc).