diff --git a/tests/runtests.pl b/tests/runtests.pl
index e4f2e9d582..9eeaa3f78b 100755
--- a/tests/runtests.pl
+++ b/tests/runtests.pl
@@ -374,7 +374,7 @@ sub startnew {
 sub checkcmd {
     my ($cmd)=@_;
     my @paths=(split(":", $ENV{'PATH'}), "/usr/sbin", "/usr/local/sbin",
-               "/sbin", "/usr/bin", "/usr/local/bin", );
+               "/sbin", "/usr/bin", "/usr/local/bin" );
     for(@paths) {
         if( -x "$_/$cmd") {
             return "$_/$cmd";