On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 12:39:15PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 01:12:58AM +0300, Eray Ozkural wrote: > > I was confused by not having ifconfig in my user path. On this machine, > > there's only a dial-up net connection, and it has some small connectivity > > problems. I need to check whether the line's really up. I found > > myself going super-user to issue the command rather than running > > /sbin/ifconfig. > > ifconfig is a required file for /sbin according the the FHS section 3.10 > as distributed in the debian-policy package. Well, keep in mind that Debian has committed itself to FHS-compatibility, not FHS-compliance. This means that we are free to have symlinks standing between a pathname and the inode. -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | Music is the brandy of the damned. branden@debian.org | -- George Bernard Shaw http://www.debian.org/~branden/ |
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