Adding /sbin and /usr/sbin to everyone's path in F10

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Wed Apr 23 23:21:53 UTC 2008


On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 11:50:23PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > What happens if a debian user types 'ifconfig' to find his IP address?
> $ ifconfig
> -bash: ifconfig: command not found


If the goal here is "provide users with an easy way to find their ip
address", I don't think changing how one calls an arcane command like
ifconfig is really the solution. Instead, there should be a shell script
named something like "myip", which will then just return that. 

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