Hi,

Apologies if this is in the wrong forum, wasn't sure which was most appropriate...

I've built a Redhat 7 VM from an ISO and I've carried out various configuration on it and for some reason when I now run ip commands (for examnple 'ip addr show') I no longer get any output on screen.

Example...
[root@rhel-7-xx2 ~]# ip addr show
[root@rhel-7-xx2 ~]#

Version I'm using is:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.0 (Maipo)

I built another server and had the same problem and managed to fix it by yum updating all packages so it looks like a package needs to be updated but not sure which one.

If I pipe the output to a text file I can see the output okay in the file.

I have a ticket open with Redhat but it's taking a while to troubleshoot with them so thought I'd see if anyone else had seen this in the meantime...

Thanks
James

if I understood well:
ip addr show will return nothing, but
ip addr show > textfile will put the result in that file.

In that case your shell is misconfigured.

Strange thing is I've not gone in and edited the shell. This is how .bash_profile looks at the moment...


[root@rhel-7-xx2 ~]# cat .bash_profile
# .bash_profile

# Get the aliases and functions
if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
. ~/.bashrc
fi

# User specific environment and startup programs

PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin

export PATH
[root@rhel-7-xx2 ~]#

you did not answer me (did I understand that situation well?)
what is in ~/.bashrc and /etc/profile?

Ah sorry, here you go...


[root@rhel-7-xx2 ~]# cat ~/.bashrc
# .bashrc

# User specific aliases and functions

alias rm='rm -i'
alias cp='cp -i'
alias mv='mv -i'

# Source global definitions
if [ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then
. /etc/bashrc
fi



[root@rhel-7-xx2 ~]# cat /etc/profile
# /etc/profile

# System wide environment and startup programs, for login setup
# Functions and aliases go in /etc/bashrc

# It's NOT a good idea to change this file unless you know what you
# are doing. It's much better to create a custom.sh shell script in
# /etc/profile.d/ to make custom changes to your environment, as this
# will prevent the need for merging in future updates.

pathmunge () {
case ":${PATH}:" in
*:"$1":*)
;;
*)
if [ "$2" = "after" ] ; then
PATH=$PATH:$1
else
PATH=$1:$PATH
fi
esac
}


if [ -x /usr/bin/id ]; then
if [ -z "$EUID" ]; then
# ksh workaround
EUID=`id -u`
UID=`id -ru`
fi
USER="`id -un`"
LOGNAME=$USER
MAIL="/var/spool/mail/$USER"
fi

# Path manipulation
if [ "$EUID" = "0" ]; then
pathmunge /usr/sbin
pathmunge /usr/local/sbin
else
pathmunge /usr/local/sbin after
pathmunge /usr/sbin after
fi

HOSTNAME=`/usr/bin/hostname 2>/dev/null`
HISTSIZE=1000
if [ "$HISTCONTROL" = "ignorespace" ] ; then
export HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth
else
export HISTCONTROL=ignoredups
fi

export PATH USER LOGNAME MAIL HOSTNAME HISTSIZE HISTCONTROL

# By default, we want umask to get set. This sets it for login shell
# Current threshold for system reserved uid/gids is 200
# You could check uidgid reservation validity in
# /usr/share/doc/setup-*/uidgid file
if [ $UID -gt 199 ] && [ "`id -gn`" = "`id -un`" ]; then
umask 002
else
umask 022
fi

for i in /etc/profile.d/*.sh ; do
if [ -r "$i" ]; then
if [ "${-#*i}" != "$-" ]; then
. "$i"
else
. "$i" >/dev/null
fi
fi
done

unset i
unset -f pathmunge
[root@rhel-7-xx2 ~]#

Looks like this may be related to the HP software we use to connect to our servers (Opsware) as I can SSH directly onto the server via putty and can see the output okay.