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Old 12-03-2005, 12:54 PM   #1
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ifconfig command missing

Title says it all. On both my Fedora Core 4 machines the 'ifconfig' command does not exist, yet I am sure it was there on other installs (such as on my laptop). Is it possible that a yum update removed it? Or has anyone else had the same problem?
 
Old 12-03-2005, 01:24 PM   #2
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Try

Code:
/sbin/ifconfig
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Old 12-03-2005, 01:25 PM   #3
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Have you tried it as root? I think fedora needs root to run ifconfig.
 
Old 12-03-2005, 01:25 PM   #4
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Maybe I should look a little harder next time..

Thanks very much!

BTW you don't need to be root
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Old 12-03-2005, 01:28 PM   #5
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when you JUST supply the command name, it implies that the system will find the command in the path of that user (echo $PATH shows your path). By default users don't have /sbin in their path.

so /sbin/ifconfig as shown above will run the command. The command on it's own (no switches) displays the network info, you don't have to be root for that, however you do to modify anything
 
  


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