[Wylug-discuss] No ifconfig? - Ignore

[Anne Wilson]

On Friday 06 Jan 2006 15:39, Martin Rowe wrote:
> On 06/01/06, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
> > Panic over - sheer stupidity.  I was in the user console, not root
> > console.
>
> Hi Anne
>
> That shouldn't matter - it will run fine there. The issue is that
> ifconfig is in /sbin, which isn't in the path for a standard
> Debian[1] user (unless you add it in). You should just be able to run
> /sbin/ifconfig if all you're doing is viewing info.
>
> Regards, Martin
> [1] But is for Ubuntu, oddly enough.
> 
Hi, Martin.  Thanks for the reply.  Generally if I'm needing to look at 
ifconfig at all I'm probably wanting a root console anyway.  I'll 
remember your comment about it running if I use the path, though.  That 
could be useful at times.

Anne
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