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. ======================================================================= VMS version 2.0 ==> ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
