Problems with ifconfig in Fedora 8
Stuart Sears
stuart at sjsears.com
Tue Apr 22 08:26:53 UTC 2008
Pedro Jose wrote:
> Hello:
>
> In a Fedora 8, and also in a Centos 5.1, when I open a terminal and I
> login as root, I type ifconfig, but the command is not detected.
> However, when I go to a tty, Cntrl + Alt + F1, for example, and I
> login as root, ifconfig is recongnized.
>
> How can I fix it?
The ifconfig command is in /sbin, which is not on a normal users PATH.
so, you can do one of 2 things:
* type /sbin/ifconfig
or
*change your path to include /sbin (and if you are going to do that, you
may as well add /usr/sbin as well)
in /home/YOURUSER/.bash_profile:
(at the bottom, ideally)
export PATH=$PATH:/sbin:/usr/sbin
and then logout and login again
>
> (Sorry for my english, I'm spanish)
not a problem. My Spanish is lousy. :)
Regards,
Stuart
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