Cannot Use "ifconfig" nor "iwconfig" effectively

Hello,

I am having difficulty in bringing up the commands of "ifconfig"
and "iwconfig" up through a terminal. I am running Linux Fedora Core 3
and for some reason, when I log in as the root user, I receive the error
message "command not found". Any reason for this? Any help would be
appreciated. Thanks in advance.


Jeff

In comp.os.linux.networking Jeffrey D. Yuille <jeffy5@optonline.net>:
> Hello,

> I am having difficulty in bringing up the commands of "ifconfig"
> and "iwconfig" up through a terminal. I am running Linux Fedora Core 3
> and for some reason, when I log in as the root user, I receive the error
> message "command not found". Any reason for this? Any help would be
> appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Show us the output of the following commands:

ls -l /sbin/ifconfig
rpm -V net-tools

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"Jeffrey D. Yuille" <jeffy5@optonline.net> wrote:
>Hello,
>
> I am having difficulty in bringing up the commands of
> "ifconfig" and "iwconfig" up through a terminal. I am
> running Linux Fedora Core 3 and for some reason, when I
> log in as the root user, I receive the error message
> "command not found". Any reason for this? Any help would
> be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
>
>Jeff

Your PATH for root isn't set to include whatever directory those
commands happen to be in. Look in /sbin, /usr/sbin, and also
/usr/local/sbin.

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On Sat, 15 Jan 2005, Jeffrey D. Yuille <jeffy5@optonline.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am having difficulty in bringing up the commands of "ifconfig"
> and "iwconfig" up through a terminal. I am running Linux Fedora Core 3
> and for some reason, when I log in as the root user, I receive the error
> message "command not found". Any reason for this? Any help would be
> appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Sounds like the PATH in your shell may not contain the paths to those
commands. When you are root, check the output of: echo $PATH

If you su to root, make sure you use the hyphen 'su -', otherwise you
would still have the env of the user you were, instead of env of root.
Running with the wrong env can cause other problems.

As a normal user, you typically need to use full paths to access certain
commands like ifconfig, iwconfig, route, traceroute, etc. if not locked
down. But normal users can only read settings, not change them.

efflandt@xnet.com (David Efflandt) writes:

>On Sat, 15 Jan 2005, Jeffrey D. Yuille <jeffy5@optonline.net> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am having difficulty in bringing up the commands of "ifconfig"
>> and "iwconfig" up through a terminal. I am running Linux Fedora Core 3
>> and for some reason, when I log in as the root user, I receive the error
>> message "command not found". Any reason for this? Any help would be
>> appreciated. Thanks in advance.

>Sounds like the PATH in your shell may not contain the paths to those
>commands. When you are root, check the output of: echo $PATH

Yes. Or run
/sbin/ifconfig
/sbin/iwconfig

Jeffrey D. Yuille wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am having difficulty in bringing up the commands of "ifconfig"
> and "iwconfig" up through a terminal. I am running Linux Fedora Core 3
> and for some reason, when I log in as the root user, I receive the error
> message "command not found". Any reason for this? Any help would be
> appreciated. Thanks in advance.
>
>
> Jeff

the command may not be in you path. Try using it in the following way

/sbin/ifconfig
/sbin/iwconfig

David Efflandt wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Jan 2005, Jeffrey D. Yuille <jeffy5@optonline.net> wrote:
>
>>Hello,
>>
>> I am having difficulty in bringing up the commands of "ifconfig"
>>and "iwconfig" up through a terminal. I am running Linux Fedora Core 3
>>and for some reason, when I log in as the root user, I receive the error
>>message "command not found". Any reason for this? Any help would be
>>appreciated. Thanks in advance.
>
>
> Sounds like the PATH in your shell may not contain the paths to those
> commands. When you are root, check the output of: echo $PATH
>
> If you su to root, make sure you use the hyphen 'su -', otherwise you
> would still have the env of the user you were, instead of env of root.
> Running with the wrong env can cause other problems.
>
> As a normal user, you typically need to use full paths to access certain
> commands like ifconfig, iwconfig, route, traceroute, etc. if not locked
> down. But normal users can only read settings, not change them.

But if he's logging as root directly then he should have no problems
as if he was using su. Maybe the profile files in /etc are not well
configured.


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