Re: setting my path

2003-09-08 Thread Alan Bort
ill be run again. You can also run another shell /bin/sh. But logging out and back in is better. - Original Message - From: "pa3gcu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Anna G. Zapata" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Linux-Newbie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monda

Re: setting my path

2003-09-08 Thread pa3gcu
On Monday 08 September 2003 22:36, Alan Bort wrote: > Anyway, in RedHat the ifconfig is in /sbin/ifconfig Ah!, yes how correct you are, my mistake. > If you want a certain user to have access to ifconfig, you should give the > right permissions and then add to the .bashrc or .bash_profile the lin

Re: setting my path

2003-09-08 Thread Frank Roberts - SOTL
> No i think is more a need to understand that there is a "root" user and a > "normal" user on all linux systems. > > root = the superuser and therefor can do what he wants. > user = a normal user and cant do what he wants, he can only do what "root" > lets him/her do. Yes and they have different

Re: setting my path

2003-09-08 Thread pa3gcu
On Monday 08 September 2003 18:35, Anna G. Zapata wrote: > Hello, > > I am running Red Hat 8.0. When I run ifconfig as a user, I cannot see what > the IP address is of my box. However, when I switch to being a root user > (su -) and run ifconfig, I can see the IP address. How do I set my $PATH >

Re: setting my path

2003-09-08 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 10:35 AM 9/8/2003 -0600, Anna G. Zapata wrote: Hello, I am running Red Hat 8.0. When I run ifconfig as a user, I cannot see what the IP address is of my box. However, when I switch to being a root user (su -) and run ifconfig, I can see the IP address. How do I set my $PATH so I can run ifco

Re: setting my path

2003-09-08 Thread Weston M. Price
I assume that when you run the command you are getting a "ifconfig: command not found" error. Easiest thing to do would be to do a whereis ifconfig Typically this command is placed in th /sbin directory. Since you said that you can su to root then I assume you can make sure that your user ac

setting my path

2003-09-08 Thread Anna G. Zapata
Hello, I am running Red Hat 8.0. When I run ifconfig as a user, I cannot see what the IP address is of my box. However, when I switch to being a root user (su -) and run ifconfig, I can see the IP address. How do I set my $PATH so I can run ifconfig as a regular user? Or is this possible? Her