[sallas]

Hi all,

Been a while since I have played around with Linux, but was sure that the ifconfig was equivelant to the windows ipconfig command?
Running the following command in both my RH9 boxes :

ifconfig eth0

Returns :
bash: ifconfig: command not found

I must be missing soemthing simple surely!

TIA.

[hijinks]

you have to be root in order to run that command with no path. If you are root and sued to root make sure you use

su -

make sure you use the dash. If you want to run that command as a user run it like this

/sbin/ifconfig -a

[sallas]

Cheers for that, worked a treat!
Excuse my 'Windows' ways, but in dos you can set the path, is the same possible with Linux?? Is it possible to edit a conf file or something to input the location of commonly used commands for quick access??

TIA.

[hijinks]

yes you can add to the PATH var in /etc/profile

[grep420]

You can also set the path locally in your shell profile file. If your using bash { echo $SHELL to find out } then it will be ~/.bash_profile. Or set it manually from command line PATH=$PATH:/new/path but doing this is only temporary.