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Old 03-31-2008, 09:56 AM   #1
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ifconfig command equivalent in Fedora


Guys, just installed Fedora 8 and the "ifconfig" command does not work. Is there an equivalent command in Fedora or is the command something that has to be installed?
 
Old 03-31-2008, 09:57 AM   #2
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Are you root when you run it?

the full path to the ifconfig binary is:
/sbin/ifconfig
 
Old 03-31-2008, 10:00 AM   #3
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It is most likely installed, but not in the PATH of your non-root user (since it is an admin command for most purposes).
 
Old 03-31-2008, 10:02 AM   #4
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Yep... I run it as root but I get "command not found". I do see a file called "ifconfig" in /sbin/
 
Old 03-31-2008, 10:16 AM   #5
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if you see the file named ifconfig in sbin then the problem is that /sbin/ is not in your variables path, find out if it is by doing the following

do echo $PATH, as normal user and then as root.

if its not mentioned for neither user then you should do set PATH=$PATH:/sbin/ this adds the sbin to the path.
 
Old 03-31-2008, 10:26 AM   #6
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you may be on to something there because I do not see /sbin/ in the PATH list. However, the "set" command you gave me does not seem to add it to the list either. I ran it as root and user.
 
Old 03-31-2008, 10:44 AM   #7
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The right command is
Code:
export PATH=/sbin:$PATH
but you should investigate why the correct path is not set. Usually it's set in /etc/profile. Here is the relevant part for root:
Code:
# Path manipulation
if [ "$EUID" = "0" ]; then
        pathmunge /sbin
        pathmunge /usr/sbin
        pathmunge /usr/local/sbin
fi
 
Old 03-31-2008, 10:57 AM   #8
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Is not set PATH=$PATH:/sbin is export PATH=$PATH:/sbin works like a charm in my debian box

sorry it was not set command it was export!

withouth the backslash at the end or try simply running withouth set, set works for me, im running debian lenny, had the same problem!

another thing that you can do, is doing soft links to other directories like this:

ln -s /sbin/ifconfig /bin/ifconfig

remember that most sbin programs must be run as root.

Last edited by Ricio; 03-31-2008 at 11:57 AM. Reason: The right command
 
Old 03-31-2008, 11:03 AM   #9
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well... I checked the /etc/profile file and I found the same exact syntax you quoted above but the command wasn't working. I then used the export command and now it's working perfectly as both root and user. Thanks for the help. Not sure why this didn't work out of the box. A bug perhaps?
 
Old 03-31-2008, 11:28 AM   #10
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Don't look in the /etc/profile, it can be confusing. Instead, please post the output of the following commands, from the shell where you have the problem. Please copy-paste them - re-typing increases the chance of error too much:
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id
echo $SHELL
type ifconfig
echo $PATH
ls -l {/bin,/usr/bin,/sbin,/usr/sbin,/usr/local/sbin}/ifconfig
mount |grep ^/dev
type ifconfig
 
Old 03-31-2008, 11:35 AM   #11
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Or just use the locate command. Here's what I get (from Ubuntu, since I was logged in there right now):
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$ locate ifconfig
/usr/share/man/man8/ifconfig.8.gz
/F8/usr/share/man/man8/ifconfig.8.gz
/F8/usr/share/man/pt/man8/ifconfig.8.gz
/F8/usr/share/man/de/man8/ifconfig.8.gz
/F8/usr/share/man/fr/man8/ifconfig.8.gz
/F8/sbin/ifconfig
/sbin/ifconfig
/F7/sbin/ifconfig
/F7/usr/share/man/de/man8/ifconfig.8.gz
/F7/usr/share/man/fr/man8/ifconfig.8.gz
/F7/usr/share/man/pt/man8/ifconfig.8.gz
/F7/usr/share/man/man8/ifconfig.8.gz
 
Old 03-31-2008, 12:15 PM   #12
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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
 
Old 03-31-2008, 12:28 PM   #13
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My question would be how did you switch to root to run the command ? did you su to root ?

When using su you need to add a space and a hyphen ( -) after su, so you will get root's environment. without the hyphen your PATH will not be updated..

su -

this is mentioned even in wikipedias description of su..
 
Old 03-31-2008, 12:46 PM   #14
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I was going to ask something like farslayer's question too. You did not do the id command, so it is not possible to verify that you have switched to assume root permissions, although you should be able to at least execute ifconfig without being root.

So what happens when you enter the command:
Code:
ifconfig --version
and
Code:
ifconfig --help
 
Old 03-31-2008, 02:50 PM   #15
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that's probably it.. I just did

"su root"

haha... newbie. Thanks guys.
 
  


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