Question: as ec2-user:

```
[ec2-user@stg etc]$ sudo supervisorctl status
sudo: supervisorctl: command not found

```

as root: 

```
[ec2-user@stg etc]$ sudo su -
Last login: Tue Jun  6 03:02:55 UTC 2017 on pts/1
[root@stg ~]# supervisorctl status
kafka                            BACKOFF   Exited too quickly (process log may have details)
zookeeper                        RUNNING   pid 24697, uptime 0:25:11

```

I am not able to understand why this is happening. 
I checked sudoers file but did not find something meaningful. Please help.

Answer: 
This usually means that the command is not on the EC2 user's PATH.

If you do `echo $PATH` in both bash sessions you still see that root has `/usr/sbin/` on their path.

To fix this, you can add to the ec2-user's path by adding the following to .bashrc:
`export PATH="$PATH:/usr/sbin/"`

Alternatively, the full path to the executable, `sudo /usr/sbin/supervisorctl` should work.
after going back and forward, it was simple 
supervisor uses python 2.6 and doesnt work with 2.7 on amazon linux ami, apparently (rhel fedora) 
u can verify this by 

```
#python2.6 -c "import supervisor; print('success')"

```

success

```
#python2.7 -c "import supervisor; print('success')"

```

Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "", line 1, in 
ImportError: No module named supervisor

so u need to tell the system to use 2.6 instead of 2.7 - and u really have to make sure that this is safe to do - u dont want others app to start messing up. (am assuming u have both 2.6 and .27 installed already)

so steps to fix:

first run this command 

```
# sudo update-alternatives --config python

```

a menu will appear select the right one.
#

There are 2 programs which provide 'python'.

```
Selection    Command
-----------------------------------------------
*+ 1           /usr/bin/python2.7
   2           /usr/bin/python2.6

Enter to keep the current selection[+], or type selection number: 2
# 

```

choose the right one and ur set to go.

finally, try this one :

```
$ sudo /etc/init.d/supervisord start
Starting supervisord:                                      [  OK  ]

```

problem Solved!