hai..... regarding command not found in bin

vassu · 04-28-2015, 08:35 AM

hai everyone......can anyone plz help me what if some commands not found in sbin? say ifonfig,setup etc comands? and how to add commands in bin without script writing...help is appreciated ..tnx in advance

veerain · 04-28-2015, 08:45 AM

Welcome to Linux Questions!

Binaries are usually present in /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, /usr/local/bin, /usrlocal/sbin, /opt/bin, /opt/sbin and ~/bin.

Usually Linux distributions have a package manager by which user install them. E.g. rpm, dpkg, yum. If you have a binary you can install it one of the directories and run them. These above directories are usually in PATH environment so the executable binaries present in them are run just by their name. Else you to give absolute path like '/bin/ls'.

JeremyBoden · 04-28-2015, 08:48 AM

Maybe these commands are in /usr/bin ?

What happens if you enter

Code:

ifconfig

I get

Quote:

Command 'ifconfig' is available in '/sbin/ifconfig'
The command could not be located because '/sbin' is not included in the PATH environment variable.
This is most likely caused by the lack of administrative priviledges associated with your user account.
ifconfig: command not found

However,

Code:

sudo ifconfig

does work as expected.

Don't add commands to /usr/bin - put them in /usr/local/bin.