Problems with ifconfig in Fedora 8

Bill Crawford billcrawford1970 at gmail.com
Tue Apr 22 11:25:10 UTC 2008


On 22/04/2008, Mike Burger <mburger at bubbanfriends.org> wrote:

> IMO, the proper fix should be to have one version of the command, in one
>  location.  If there are functions that require root privileges to run, and
>  the user running the command is not root, then have the command pop up a
>  message indicating that the specified option(s) require root privileges.

There are other precedents; sometimes there is a different version of
a command in e.g. /sbin (for early in the boot process) and in
/usr/sbin or /usr/bin for later. I don't think we have ever really
used this in Fedora (we have different commands, like nash).




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