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jasonandashley1jasonandashley1 Member Posts: 15 ■□□□□□□□□□
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i studying for the exam using fedora 2 on my lap and fedora 3 on my desktop. I remember from the network + that ifconfig should display all the ip/dns etc. when i type ifconfig it says
command noit found. anyone know why?
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    TeKniquesTeKniques Member Posts: 1,262 ■■■■□□□□□□
    That's weird, I'm assuming your opening a terminal from the GUI and entering the command?

    Did you setup your network configs during install? If I remember correctly even if your NIC isn't recognized you should still get some sort of reading from ifconfig
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    jasonandashley1jasonandashley1 Member Posts: 15 ■□□□□□□□□□
    yes. Im set up the network. I'm conected to the internet right now.
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    jasonandashley1jasonandashley1 Member Posts: 15 ■□□□□□□□□□
    well, i kind of got it to work. Logged in to root, cd to /sbin and did a ./ifconifg

    does this mean there is a link broken somewhere and therefore "ifconifg" wont work by just typing "ifconfig" in / ?
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    drewm320drewm320 Member Posts: 68 ■■□□□□□□□□
    No, it means that /sbin is not in your PATH (which is sort of odd). Type:

    echo $PATH

    This will show all the directories that Linux will search in for a program if you do not specify the complete path. To add directories to your PATH, go to your user's home directory (i.e /root) and edit the .bash_profile file. There will be a line like this:

    PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin

    Just add directories as needed separated by colons:

    PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin:/sbin

    Then log out and back in or start a new xterm to make the change take effect.
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    lordylordy Member Posts: 632 ■■■■□□□□□□
    /sbin contains system binaries which are supposed to be used by root therefore /sbin is not in the user's default $PATH.

    You can either modify your path to include /sbin or simply call /sbin/ifconfig.
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    darkuserdarkuser Member Posts: 620 ■■■□□□□□□□
    do a
    locate ifconfig

    [kurt@netsys70 kurt]$ locate ifconfig
    /usr/share/man/man8/ifconfig.8.gz
    /usr/share/man/de_DE/man8/ifconfig.8.gz
    /usr/share/man/fr_FR/man8/ifconfig.8.gz
    /usr/share/man/pt_BR/man8/ifconfig.8.gz
    /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-8/arch/ia64/sn/io/ifconfig_net.c
    /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-8/include/asm-ia64/sn/ifconfig_net.h
    /sbin/ifconfig
    [kurt@netsys70 kurt]$


    [kurt@netsys70 kurt]$ /sbin/ifconfig
    eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:B0:D0:44:81:24
    inet addr:172.16.3.70 Bcast:172.16.3.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
    UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
    RX packets:3502339 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
    TX packets:48870 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
    collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
    RX bytes:240493675 (229.3 Mb) TX bytes:22572137 (21.5 Mb)
    Interrupt:5 Base address:0xec80

    lo Link encap:Local Loopback
    inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
    UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
    RX packets:9797293 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
    TX packets:9797293 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
    collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
    RX bytes:668960916 (637.9 Mb) TX bytes:668960916 (637.9 Mb)

    [kurt@netsys70 kurt]$
    rm -rf /
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    mctoffermctoffer Member Posts: 24 ■□□□□□□□□□
    you can also check your /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts for the ip address of your ethernet card
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    rossonieri#1rossonieri#1 Member Posts: 799 ■■■□□□□□□□
    mctoffer wrote:
    you can also check your /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts for the ip address of your ethernet card

    and you can type all the gateway, ip addr etc manually.
    the More I know, that is more and More I dont know.
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