ifconfig!! Command not found!!
 

Hi to all !!
i tried to do an 'ifcofig' in my newly installed FC3 box, and it says bash:ifconfig:command not found
What is the possible cause and what do i need to do?
Thank you,
Regards Azzath.

The command is ifconfig so make sure you spelled it correctly. It is also a system command that is not intended to be run by normal users, so if you are logged in as a user besides root or you used su without a - (dash) at the end then it will not be in your path but you can try /sbin/ifconfig.

sounds like you haven't installed nettools (if ifconfig isn't in your /sbin folder).

it's on one of the distro cds somewhere in an rpm - something like net-tools-1.xx.xx.rpm, just do an rpm install on that file.

hth.

john

Thanx Darin and john,
I misspelled it in here but i did spell correctly on the terminal,and i was a root when i did it, anyway..
When i did /sbin/ifconfig then it did show the configuration. but why do i have to go to /sbin to do an ifconfig? why is it in my Mandrake box when i just typed in ifconfig then it worked straight away?
I can do an alias to get this work but i didn't do any aliasing for the mandrake box..
Just curious?

Thanx guys.
Take care.
Regards Azzath

Check to see that /sbin is in your $PATH variable as root. If not, add with

PATH=$PATH:/sbin/

and that should fix it.