Other Settings

Here are a few other settings that are not mentioned on the other pages in this section.

Extra path setting

By default "/usr/sbin" is not included in the path for terminal sessions, which can result in some of commands not being found. To fix this, open a terminal as root and edit the file "/etc/profile", add the following lines at the bottom:

# Extra Path setting
export PATH=$PATH:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin

Using a DVD drive

A DVD drive ("/dev/dvd") does not get created by default during some installations.

Find which "/dev/cdrom[x]" is actually a DVD drive and look at the properties of the file to see which "hd*" device it links to.

Open a terminal as root and go to the "/dev" directory and enter the command:

ln -s /dev/hd* /dev/dvd

(where hd* is the device name of the DVD drive)