ifconfig command equivalent in Fedora

PTrenholme · 03-31-2008, 03:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by acat800

locate ifconfig
/sbin/ifconfig
/usr/share/man/de/man8/ifconfig.8.gz
/usr/share/man/fr/man8/ifconfig.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ifconfig.8.gz
/usr/share/man/pt/man8/ifconfig.8.gz

echo $SHELL
/bin/bash

type ifconfig
ifconfig is /sbin/ifconfig

echo $PATH
/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin

ls -l {/bin:/usr/bin,/sbin,/usr/sbin,/usr/local/sbin}/ifconfig
ls: cannot access /bin:/usr/bin/ifconfig: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access /usr/sbin/ifconfig: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access /usr/local/sbin/ifconfig: No such file or directory
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 71628 2007-08-23 11:44 /sbin/ifconfig

mount |grep ^/dev
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 on / type ext3 (rw)
/dev/sda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
/dev/sdb1 on /mnt/windows type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096)

type ifconfig
ifconfig is /sbin/ifconfig

O.K., that does show that /sbin is in you path, and that ls can find it.

So, what does the command file /sbin/ifconfig show? It should be something like this:

Code:

$ file /sbin/ifconfig
ifconfig: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.9, stripped

simplicissimus · 03-31-2008, 04:20 PM

I have Fedora 8 running and you don't have to be root to see /sbin/ifconfig. Only thing that it requires the full path, since /sbin is not in a cmmon user's PATH.

Code:

$ ls /sbin/ifconfig
/sbin/ifconfig

I can even run it as a regular user to get the default output.

Regards,
SIMP

Fedora User

farslayer · 03-31-2008, 08:22 PM

Yeah that missing hyphen will get you every time..

Simple solution to a seemingly complex problem