[Wylug-help] Where are ifconfig, route etc under FC4?

John Hodrien johnh at comp.leeds.ac.uk
Mon Aug 15 14:57:42 BST 2005


On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Dave Fisher wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 01:00:49PM +0100, Jim Jackson wrote:
>> On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Philip Wyett wrote:
>>> Note: These are not base path and need you to /sbin/appname to execute.
>>
>> Most systems I've worked on tend to have /sbin in the default path for
>> root.
>
> Me too. That's probably why I didn't explicitly look for ifconfig in
> /sbin ... and why which ifconfig, etc obviously didn't work.

But to keep the voice on I had before, this is also true of FC4.  Of course if
Dave had su'ed to root with "su" rather than "su -", or run as a normal user,
then that wouldn't have been picked up.

jh

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