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

[Nick Rout]

On Mon, January 21, 2008 8:44 am, Clark Mills wrote:
> 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

gentoo sets up $PATH like that too, /sbin and /usr/sbin are not in the
normal users' path.

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Nick Rout