Hi Tim,
Some utilities (including ifconfig) are considered "for system
administrator use only", and are stored in /sbin or /usr/sbin. Normal
users' $PATHs typically do not include these directories, while
root's $PATH does. If you want to invoke those utilities, you can add
these directories to your $PATH via ~/.bash_profile, or you can
invoke them by their full path (e.g. /sbin/ifconfig).
Best,
-- Elliot
On Jul 6, 2006, at 12:58, Timothy Alberts wrote:
So I get this every now and then and haven't found a smooth method of
dealing with it. I have my desktop upgraded from FC4 to FC5 and the
command 'ifconfig' comes back with 'bash: ifconfig: command not
found.'
Additionally, I have been through tutorials on the web and different
books on running commands that more often than not, the bash shell
comes
back with the same message.
My first question is, are the shell commands and features standardized
somewhere so that I know what commands I can expect to have no matter
what machine I'm sitting at or what type of installation I have? My
second question is, if these commands are supposed to be there, but
the
shell comes back and says they aren't, what is the procedure for
finding
the commands or installing the packages required for them?
I understand the 'which xxx' command will tell me the location of the
executable that is being used when I call a command. However it
doesn't
help me find a missing command. I also understand that typically
shell
commands are in /bin /usr/bin /usr/local/bin among others. If it
helps,
when I type 'which ifconfig' the following is the result:
/usr/bin/which: no ifconfig in
(/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:
/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/talberts/bin)
Sorry these are fairly general questions so if it's easier to just
focus
on the 'ifconfig' command that would be helpful. Thank you for any
response.
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