Re: eth0 or eth1
On 2010-01-29 12:04:29 -0500, Stephen Powell wrote:
> If you feel strongly about this, then I suggest that you
> file a bug report against the net-tools package and complain
> that ifconfig should be moved from /sbin to /bin (or some other
> directory in a normal user's path). As you know,
> "ifconfig -a", issued verbatim by a normal user on a plain vanilla
> Debian system, does not work unless the user has modified
> his PATH variable.
"/sbin/ifconfig -a" will work, without needing to become root.
That would have been a better advice than asking the user to
run the command as root.
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