----- Original Message ---- From: Scroopy <no-reply-gw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 8:22:53 AM Subject: can't ifconfig I can not use the ifconfig command. When I type ifconfig, I get the following command: bash: ifconfig: command not found I then typed the command updatedb I then typed the command locate ifconfig, which gave me the following output: /sbin/ifconfig /usr/share/man/de/man8/ifconfig.8.gz /usr/share/man/fr/man8/ifconfig.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8/ifconfig.8.gz /usr/share/man/pt/man8/ifconfig.8.gz Do I need to install ifconfig? If so, how do I do that? -- This is an email sent via The Fedora Community Portal https://fcp.surfsite.org https://fcp.surfsite.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=187614&topic_id=41318&forum=34#forumpost187614 If you think, this is spam, please report this to webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and/or blame nekenamant@xxxxxxxxxxxx -- ----- End of Original Message ---- On the command prompt you see something like [olivares@localhost ~]$ ifconfig bash: ifconfig: command not found To get ifconfig to work you need to become superuser (type su -) on command prompt and ifconfig should work as shown below [olivares@localhost ~]$ su - Password: [root@localhost ~]# ifconfig lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:190 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:190 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:34344 (33.5 KiB) TX bytes:34344 (33.5 KiB) ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol inet addr:66.201.8.31 P-t-P:66.201.8.6 Mask:255.255.255.255 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:1877 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:2318 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:3 RX bytes:795664 (777.0 KiB) TX bytes:553145 (540.1 KiB) [root@localhost ~]# or alternatively you can use /sbin/ifconfig as follows [olivares@localhost ~]$ /sbin/ifconfig lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:190 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:190 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:34344 (33.5 KiB) TX bytes:34344 (33.5 KiB) ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol inet addr:66.201.8.31 P-t-P:66.201.8.6 Mask:255.255.255.255 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:1889 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:2328 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:3 RX bytes:797030 (778.3 KiB) TX bytes:557222 (544.1 KiB) [olivares@localhost ~]$ Regards, Antonio Linux Counter #381662 http://counter.li.org/ Home Page(s): http://www20.brinkster.com/olivares/ http://www.geocities.com/olivares14031/ [olivares@localhost ~]$ uname -a Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.20-1.2962.fc6 #1 SMP Tue Jun 19 19:27:14 EDT 2007 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux [olivares@localhost ~]$ uptime 08:37:57 up 4 days, 6:57, 2 users, load average: 0.35, 0.74, 1.03 [olivares@localhost ~]$ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the Internet in your pocket: mail, news, photos & more. http://mobile.yahoo.com/go?refer=1GNXIC
