ifconfig command not available in FC7 test2

[Arch Willingham]

I tried the newest Live CD for FC7 (test2). It is running in a Dell 2400 and a Dell 3000.
In both cases they booted up just fine. On the 2400, it did not automatically detect the
network card so I added on manually (the 3000 did it automatically). It let me do that but
I could never tell if it got an IP address. I tried typing "ifconfig" but it
just says "command not available". I tried "ifconfig" on the 3000 and
got the same message.

Arch

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 14:31:03 -0500,
  Arch Willingham <arch(a)tuparks.com&gt; wrote:
>  I tried the newest Live CD for FC7 (test2). It is running in a Dell
> 2400 and a Dell 3000. In both cases they booted up just fine. On the 2400, it did not
> automatically detect the network card so I added on manually (the 3000 did it
> automatically). It let me do that but I could never tell if it got an IP address. I tried
> typing "ifconfig" but it just says "command not available". I tried
> "ifconfig" on the 3000 and got the same message. 
Was /sbin in your path?
Was net-tools installed?

[Arch Willingham]

Remember, its just the Live CD...its boots and you get whatever happens but, in answer to
your questions:

1. Path is set to : /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/fedora/bin

2. "Was net-tools installed?"...umm...how do I tell??

Arch

-----Original Message-----
From: Bruno Wolff III [mailto:[e-mail]]
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 2:36 PM
To: Arch Willingham
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Subject: Re: ifconfig command not available in FC7 test2


On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 14:31:03 -0500,
  Arch Willingham <arch(a)tuparks.com&gt; wrote:
>  I tried the newest Live CD for FC7 (test2). It is running in a Dell
> 2400 and a Dell 3000. In both cases they booted up just fine. On the 2400, it did not
> automatically detect the network card so I added on manually (the 3000 did it
> automatically). It let me do that but I could never tell if it got an IP address. I tried
> typing "ifconfig" but it just says "command not available". I tried
> "ifconfig" on the 3000 and got the same message. 
Was /sbin in your path?
Was net-tools installed?

[Adam Jackson]

On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 14:56 -0500, Arch Willingham wrote:
>  Remember, its just the Live CD...its boots and you get whatever
> happens but, in answer to your questions:
>  
>  1. Path is set to : /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/fedora/bin 
ifconfig is in /sbin.  /sbin is not in the default path.  Yes, this is
ridiculous.

>  2. "Was net-tools installed?"...umm...how do I tell??
rpm -q net-tools

- ajax

[Arch Willingham]

You are right, when I typed "/sbin/ip" and "/sbin/ifconfig", both
commands worked. Also "rpm -q net-tools" resulted in
"net-tools-1.60-78.fc7".

Arch

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[mailto:[e-mail]]On Behalf Of Adam Jackson
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 2:49 PM
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Subject: RE: ifconfig command not available in FC7 test2


On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 14:56 -0500, Arch Willingham wrote:
>  Remember, its just the Live CD...its boots and you get whatever
> happens but, in answer to your questions:
>  
>  1. Path is set to : /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/fedora/bin 
ifconfig is in /sbin.  /sbin is not in the default path.  Yes, this is
ridiculous.

>  2. "Was net-tools installed?"...umm...how do I tell??
rpm -q net-tools

- ajax

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[Dawid Gajownik]

Dnia 03/02/2007 09:33 PM, Użytkownik Arch Willingham napisał:
>  You are right, when I typed "/sbin/ip" and
> "/sbin/ifconfig",
>  both commands worked. 
If you want to omit "/sbin" in the commandline you just need to properly 
login as root:

su -

(this dash IS important)

HTH,
	Dawid

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[Michal Jaegermann]

On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 02:31:03PM -0500, Arch Willingham wrote:
>  It let me do that but I could never tell if it got an IP address.
Type, as root,  'ip addr'.  Also 'system-config-network' and/or
'NetworkManager' applet will provide that information.

>  I tried typing "ifconfig" but it just says "command
> not
>  available". I tried "ifconfig" on the 3000 and got the same
>  message. 
'ifconfig' is a part of  net-tools-1.60-79.fc7, as for now,
package.  Quite possible it was omitted from LiveCD to save
some space.  It does not do anything more than 'ip' which
can also do many other things.

For a quick peek how 'ip' works look how it is used in
/sbin/ifup script and also try to type things like 'ip help',
'ip addr help' and similar.

   Michal

[Arch Willingham]

Cool...I did not know the ip command! 

Now it gets even weirder. For the heck of it, I typed the ip addr command on the Dell
3000...it works fine. I typed it from the Dell 2400 and it says "command not
found". Bizarre  since its all booting from the same CD.

Arch

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Jaegermann
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 2:43 PM
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Subject: Re: ifconfig command not available in FC7 test2


On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 02:31:03PM -0500, Arch Willingham wrote:
>  It let me do that but I could never tell if it got an IP address.
Type, as root,  'ip addr'.  Also 'system-config-network' and/or
'NetworkManager' applet will provide that information.

>  I tried typing "ifconfig" but it just says "command
> not
>  available". I tried "ifconfig" on the 3000 and got the same
>  message. 
'ifconfig' is a part of  net-tools-1.60-79.fc7, as for now,
package.  Quite possible it was omitted from LiveCD to save
some space.  It does not do anything more than 'ip' which
can also do many other things.

For a quick peek how 'ip' works look how it is used in
/sbin/ifup script and also try to type things like 'ip help',
'ip addr help' and similar.

   Michal

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