ifconfig: command not found
 

Hi
I have fedora 8 installed both on my laptop and desktop. When I typed ifconfig I receive this message

bash: ifconfig: command not found

When I used to find command to look for the file I receive this message

find: ifconfig: No such file or directory

But when I go to Places then Search for files, I found it under /sbin

Anyway, I tried to execute it but nothing happen.

What is exactly the problem? why I can not execute the ifconfig

Please help

Try "locate ifconfig".

"ifconfig" didn't work because it's not in your path. (echo $PATH)
"find ifconfig" didn't work because you didn't give find any instructions. Read the manual.

How about:

/sbin/ifconfig

Also, ifconfig should be in roots path, you could also try "sudo ifconfig" or "su - -c ifconfig"
particularly if you want to do more than just check the settings.

As previous post have pointed out the issue is that ifconfig is not in your path. It resides in /sbin/ifconfig. You can either run /sbin/ifconfig each time, or you can add /sbin/ to your path. This can be done in a number of ways depending on your distro.