Thanks for the info.
Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Oct 22,
2007 at 05:37:29PM +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 21Oct2007 22:16, Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> | On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 07:10:28PM -0700, Ron Osborne wrote:
> | > I was playing around with my connection using Ubuntu. I figured out how
> to do a ping but what are the Linux versions of IPCONFIG and TRACERT.
> |
> | ifconfig
> | traceroute
>
> And ifconfig is usually in /sbin, which may not be in your execution
> path. You can run it with the full path: /sbin/ifconfig
> or adjust your $PATH variable.
He's using Ubuntu, so it's not an issue in this case, but it's a good
point. When I recently changed jobs, and went back to Fedora and
CentOS, I frequently got hit by that for the first few days. (I left my
$PATH alone, as I wanted to get familiar with what commands were in
/sbin and /usr/sbin.)
Ubuntu doesn't give root access by default--instead, like Mac OSX,
everything is done with sudo.
In contrast, RH and its offshoots don't add a user to sudoers by
default, and one either has to do it manually or use su. (Nor does
one, by default, have to be in the wheel group to su, unlike, for
example, Gentoo or FreeBSD.)
On my workstation, I simply duplicated what I've been doing for the last
few years--I edited /etc/pam.d/su, uncommented the line that requires
you to be in wheel to su, and uncommented the line in /etc/sudoers to
allow wheel group members to perform commands. The only change I didn't
make was in my $PATH variable--as I said, I wanted to familiarize myself
with what went where.
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