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linuxnewbie
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 Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2005 8:52 pm Post subject: Ifconfig command not working. |
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Hi all! greetings to everyone........... Ok, I'm a relative newbie to linux and I've tinkered around with different linux distros and stumbled upon blag. I'm familiar with basic linux commands and all, but for the life of me, I can't figure out why the ifconfig command doesn't work on my blag box. When logged in as root, and I type "/sbin/ifconfig", I get a -bash command not found error message. I know that this simple command works in most linux distros, why not on my blag box? Is this a security related issue by any chance?
Can someone please help me out?
Thanks in advance!
Ln
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stevo32
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| Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 1:24 am Post subject: |
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*shrugs* works for me...no idea what you did wrong...
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Guest
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| Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 2:04 am Post subject: |
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| stevo32 wrote: | | *shrugs* works for me...no idea what you did wrong... |
Hi! I finally got the command to work after rebooting my pc. Haven't the slightest idea what the problem was.
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jebba
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| Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 2:05 am Post subject: |
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Man, it's almost impossible to do an install without /sbin/ifconfig there. Just make sure you're typing it in correctly... Also, if you log in as root, you can just run "ifconfig" (though both should work fine).
The only possibility I can think of is that you accidentally removed the file or something. If so, you'll need to reinstall the net-tools rpm for your system. To see if it's there run:
| Code: | | ls -l /sbin/ifconfig |
-Jeff
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linuxnewbie
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| Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 2:11 am Post subject: |
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| jebba wrote: | Man, it's almost impossible to do an install without /sbin/ifconfig there. Just make sure you're typing it in correctly... Also, if you log in as root, you can just run "ifconfig" (though both should work fine).
The only possibility I can think of is that you accidentally removed the file or something. If so, you'll need to reinstall the net-tools rpm for your system. To see if it's there run:
| Code: | | ls -l /sbin/ifconfig |
-Jeff |
Thanks jeff! I did the check that you recommended. All is fine!
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jebba
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| Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 5:21 am Post subject: |
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For what it's worth, in the subject you were typing l or I (lower L or upper i). Linux is case-sensitive. Perhaps that was what happened.
Have fun,
-Jeff
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