VM Commands not working over SSH

[hwhjake]

Hi Everyone,

I'm completely new so this might be a really easy one for you.

When running commands such as 'qm list' from within the shell on the web interface, it returns a list of my VM's. But when running the exact same command logged in as root via putty/ssh, i get 'command not found'. (pic attached)

Thanks in advance!
Jake

 

[Stoiko Ivanov]

My first guess would be that the PATH variable is not set correctly when using ssh
since the putty session seems to indicate that you intially logged in as user kirby - how did you become root?
(su? sudo?)

if su - check https://wiki.debian.org/NewInBuster

else - does it work if you run `/usr/sbin/qm list`

I hope this helps!

 

[hwhjake]

Yep by default it wont let me login as root so have to login as my kirby account then 'su' to root. running the command as '/usr/sbin/qm list' gave me a result.

Thank you Stoiko

 

[oguz]

Yep by default it wont let me login as root so have to login as my kirby account then 'su' to root. running the command as '/usr/sbin/qm list' gave me a result.

Thank you Stoiko

if you run su root then the environment will still belong to the previous user.

instead you can run su - root (note the dash) or sudo -i to set the environment correctly. that way qm and other commands in sbin will work normally

 

[hwhjake]

su - root works too, thank you oguz!