Problems with ifconfig in Fedora 8

[Stuart Sears]

Andrea Mastellone wrote:
> 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.
>>>
>>> How can I fix it?
>>
>> The ifconfig command is in /sbin, which is not on a normal users PATH.
>>
>> so, you can do one of 2 things:
>> * type /sbin/ifconfig
>>
>> or
>> *change your path to include /sbin (and if you are going to do that, 
>> you may as well add /usr/sbin as well)
>>
>> in /home/YOURUSER/.bash_profile:
>>
>> (at the bottom, ideally)
>>
>> export PATH=$PATH:/sbin:/usr/sbin
>>
>> and then logout and login again
>>
>>>
>>> (Sorry for my english, I'm spanish)
>>
>> not a problem. My Spanish is lousy. :)
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Stuart
> 
> In a simpler way, you can type su - instead of su in a terminal.
> This gives you also the root environment variables (including PATH).

Absolutely. /me is guilty of not RTFQ. :)

su -
is the correct way to do this.

Stuart
-- 
Stuart Sears RHCA etc.