Re: [Sheflug] What's The IP Address?

[Alex Hudson <home [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 01:19, fred wrote:
> If you are logged in as fred and type ifconfig it will show command not
> found as you are not root (user)

That's not correct - it's command not found because /sbin generally
isn't in your $PATH.

> Changing to root with fred [at] lxbox local] # su
>                             password ******
>                       root [at] lxbox local] # ifconfig -a
> 
> Will work however you are running cammand as root!!!

Actually, it probably won't work - since being root is not the problem,
changing to root isn't going to fix it. If you did 'su -' rather than
plain 'su' it would, because you would also get root's environment,
which does have /sbin in $PATH. 

> Is this all to do with absolute path!! /sbin/ifconfig

Indeed, that works.

Cheers,

Alex.

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