[nzlug] CentOS and the "joys" of rpm based systems

Clark Mills c.mills at auckland.ac.nz
Mon Jan 21 08:44:55 NZDT 2008


solanth wrote:
> re ifconfig in RH/Fedora
> it does not work out of the box for users
> need to be root

It works but don't expect to make any changes while not root:

$ /sbin/ifconfig

Like someone else mentioned, ifconfig isn't in your PATH by default as a normal 
user.

Cheers...  Clark



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