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

[John Hodrien]

On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Dave Fisher wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 02:57:28PM +0100, John Hodrien wrote:
>> On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Dave Fisher wrote:
>>> 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.
>
> Excuse me for being Mr ultra-defensive, for any lapses of memory, and/or
> for miss-reading the logic of your sentence, but I think I tried sudo
> first and used "su -" after that failed.  Aren't you saying that "su -"
> is supposed to work because it picks up root's path (and the rest of its
> environment)?

su - indeed does work and I've never seen an instance of it not working.  I
can show you any number of default install FC4 boxes and su - gives the
following path:

/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/root/bin

Now if either you or something else has modified .bashrc or associated
friends, then all bets are off.  So something broken in /etc/profile.d for
example could shaft you.  But if you look in /etc/profile you see:

# Path manipulation
if [ $EUID = 0 ]; then
    pathmunge /sbin
    pathmunge /usr/sbin
    pathmunge /usr/local/sbin
fi

Where pathmunge prevents duplicates.

I was just making sure that FC4's good name wasn't being soiled again as this
is *not* the fault of Fedora.  The defaults are as you'd expect.

jh

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