Problems with ifconfig in Fedora 8

[Stuart Sears]

Aaron Konstam wrote:
> 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.

Indeed. I already admitted to not having RTFQ properly.
This is almost certainly a PATH issue, though, as discussed in the 
remainder of the thread.
And what I suggested would actually work.

:)

Regards,

Stuart
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