Re: Problems with ifconfig in Fedora 8

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>]

On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 12:42 -0400, Mike Burger 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.
> 
> I've worked with folks long enough to know that "logged in as..." does not
> always mean actually logged in as...especially knowing that he's opening a
> terminal (which I take to mean that he's actually logged in as himself at
> an X session, opens a terminal) and running "su" which maintains his
> environment, with root privileges.
But not root's environment.

> He also notes that if he goes to a tty (which I take to mean he's using
> ctrl-alt-FX), and logging in as root...basically a console login, which,
> like su -, will give the root user's full environment.
> 
That will.
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