Hello guys I wanted to get the ip from the server with ifconfig command, but for some reason I don`t have it, when I type ifconfig on the terminal it says Command not found. I looked for the ifconfig source code in the web to compile it with gcc, but I didn`t find it, can anyone please give the c source code or tell where I can get it. Thanks in advance.

Did you do (typing "ifconfig") as a root? If not, then do i as a UID 0 (I mean root). Usually ifconfig is in /sbin directory. And if you type /sbin/ifconfig as a normal user, then it should work...
You can check your ip address (and more), by ip program (but to do it, you must be root). In root mode try to write; ip a show

Did you do (typing "ifconfig") as a root? If not, then do i as a UID 0 (I mean root). Usually ifconfig is in /sbin directory. And if you type /sbin/ifconfig as a normal user, then it should work...
You can check your ip address (and more), by ip program (but to do it, you must be root). In root mode try to write; ip a show

Did you try /sbin/ifconfig? Should work as a normal user.

Like you say, the ifconfig command is in /sbin/ifconfig. The problem is that I can´t log on as root on the server, and I don´t have permissions of any kind in that binary. It´s permissions are:
-rwxr-x--- 1 root root
I have to make a script which outputs several host attributes, but I can´t test it in the server because I don´t have access to that binary.
And since I can´t log on as root, I figured out that the only way of getting that command was by compiling the ifconfig source code, ( like I did with other commands before, such like banner and md5 )but I´m not sure if that will work because the sources I compiled before only do string operations. Thanks

You need to have sudo priviliges for that to work since ifconfig as earlier pointed out has UID set to 0.

Sure, you can download the source and compile your own version. You can perform any of its non-privileged fucntions.

Hello guys, I found this link that may be helpful for finding the ifconfig source code. I haven`t verified it yet though.
http://mingzuos.blogspot.com/