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Hi all,
Been a while since I have played around with Linux, but was sure that the ifconfig was equivelant to the windows ipconfig command?
Running the following command in both my RH9 boxes :
ifconfig eth0
Returns :
bash: ifconfig: command not found
I must be missing soemthing simple surely!
TIA.
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you have to be root in order to run that command with no path. If you are root and sued to root make sure you use
su -
make sure you use the dash. If you want to run that command as a user run it like this
/sbin/ifconfig -a
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Cheers for that, worked a treat!
Excuse my 'Windows' ways, but in dos you can set the path, is the same possible with Linux?? Is it possible to edit a conf file or something to input the location of commonly used commands for quick access??
TIA.
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yes you can add to the PATH var in /etc/profile
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You can also set the path locally in your shell profile file. If your using bash { echo $SHELL to find out } then it will be ~/.bash_profile. Or set it manually from command line PATH=$PATH:/new/path but doing this is only temporary.