Error - sudo: dmidecode: command not found

[RajeshGummadoju]

Serial Number information is missing for some of Linux Servers.

Error - sudo: dmidecode: command not found

we have tried runing  sudo /usr/sbin/dmidecode -t 1 | cat and getting results.

However the same OOB command(sudo dmidecode -t 1 | cat) is working fine for other Linux Servers.

We have tried using mid property mid.ssh.disable_privilege_check parameter but still facing the same issue.

Please let me know your thoughts, thanks in advance.

Best Regards,

RajeSh

[tim_broberg]

mid.ssh.disable_privilege check: It sounds like the problem is not that sudo is failing, but that dmidecode is just missing on these servers.

Can you install dmidecode?
    - Tim.

[RajeshGummadoju]

Hi Tim,

Thanks for your reply.

But when we are running command sudo /usr/sbin/dmidecode -t 1 | cat instead of sudo dmidecode -t 1 | cat we are getting output.

If dmidecode is not installed that shouldn't return any output right.

Please let me know if we are missing something.

Best Regards,

RajeSh

[Alexey7]

Most likely this's happened due to credentials supplied. Executable programs in /sbin directory by default not in the PATH file for ordinary users. If you cannot run  "sudo dmidecode -t 1 | cat" but can run "sudo /usr/sbin/dmidecode -t 1 | cat"  on a Linux machine, try to add a variable to PATH file and rerun command. 

Hope this helps.

[tim_broberg]

Interesting. Perhaps you have two copies and the first one on the path is not in sudoers?

What happens if you run which dmidecode?