Hi all,
I am running redhat 9 and I am trying to determine my IP address so that friends of mine can find my computer on the network (file sharing and such). I've tried running ifconfig and netconfig but both commands result in this:

[root@localhost /]# ifconfig eth0
bash: ifconfig: command not found
[root@localhost /]# netconfig eth0
bash: netconfig: command not found

I did one of those, "what's my IP" on google but what I need is the internal IP address of my computer (I'm on a college campus). Back in the day with windows I just ran the netstat command or was it winpcfg. Whatever....is there something similar that I can use in RH9? I figured it'd be these two commands but since they don't seem to work, I'm kind of at a loss. By the way, the campus has static IPs determined by the room that you live in, but the computer department has enough to do with lost passwords so I kind of want to figure it out on my own.

Thanks.
---Jeremy.

Try being root or typing /sbin/ifconfig.
HTH
lynch

Are you logged-in as root or a normal user ?

By default, /sbin is not part of a normal user's available paths.
So like lynch mentioned, you will have to type in the full path (/sbin/ifconfig)
or add /sbin to the user's available paths
or login as root using the su command.

Hey,
Yes I was logged in as root, but still to no avail. When I finish this awefully boring French Lit, I'll try /sbin/ifconfig and let you know how it went. By the by, will that in fact generate the needed information?
---Jeremy.

Yes. It will give you the IP address and more...

Ok, the /sbin/ifconfig command worked. Anyone know why RH didn't find the command in the search path? Well, anyway, it works, that's all I ask.

When you login as root with "su" it doesn;t load roots default paths which includes /sbin. If you want to su root and start a new bash session including loading roots path then use "su -".