[Novices] command not found

[Andrew Thompson]

On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 15:41 +0000, Robert G. Brown wrote:
> On Wed, 08 Mar 2006 10:33:40 -0500, Eric Beversluis wrote:
> >On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 15:26 +0000, Robert G. Brown wrote:
> >> On Wed, 08 Mar 2006 10:22:41 -0500, Eric Beversluis wrote:
> >> >On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 15:19 +0000, Robert G. Brown wrote:
> >> >> On Wed, 08 Mar 2006 10:06:49 -0500, Eric Beversluis wrote:
> >> >> When you su, enter:
> >> >> su -
> >> >Run this as a separate command after I'm at the  [root at linserv eric]#
> >> >prompt?
> >> No, USE the command to become root.
> >Got it. 
> >(Interesting, these distro quirks. With Mandrake, I just use su to get
> >there.)
> It may well be that the Mandrake distribution folks chose to set the
> PATH varialbe differently taht other, or they put ifconfig in a different
> directory.

Every distro where I've used it puts ifconfig in /sbin, and does NOT
include that path in the default user profile. Try /sbin/ifconfig, and
see if that works.

-- 
Andrew Thompson <tempes at ameritech.net>
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