Problems with ifconfig in Fedora 8
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Tue Apr 22 14:46:53 UTC 2008
On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 09:26 +0100, Stuart Sears wrote:
> 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.
> > you are saying does not apply.
> > How can I fix it?
>
> The ifconfig command is in /sbin, which is not on a normal users PATH.
He said he loged in as root so what you are saying does not apply.
>
> 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
> --
> Stuart Sears RHCA etc.
>
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