Normally if you are logged in as root, it adds /sbin and /usr/sbin to your path. then ifconfig works.
Art --- Jacob Albretsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually, upon closer inspection, since I am writing > an article on how to get > on ResNet with Linux, they tell you just to type > "ifconfig" to get your mac. > > 1) In Red Hat and Mandrake, the two most common > distros, "ifconfig" is NOT > aliased to "/sbin/ifconfig". (Confirmed with > Mandrake 8.0, 8.2 and Red Hat > 7.3 To be fair, it did work with Mandrake 7.0) > > 2) Even if it was, from what I have seen if your > eth0 is down, it won't > display that. You need to type /sbin/ifconfig eth0 > to even get anywhere. > > On Friday 09 August 2002 11:33 am, you wrote: > > Someone told me that the IT department denied the > existence of Linux on > > students' computers. > > > > Apparently things are changing there, because the > page that talks about MAC > > addresses includes a (small, but comprehensive) > section about Linux. See > > > http://it.byu.edu/content/prods/compethernet/findMacAddress.pdf > > > > Have a great weekend. > > > > --JLC > > -- > Jacob Albretsen > Brigham Young University > Department of Physics and Astronomy > (801) 422-9291 || (801) 422-9272 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://astro2.byu.edu/~jake || > http://www.xmission.com/~jakea > > "Some software money can't buy. For everything else > there's Micros~1." > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > To unsubscribe from the BYU UUG discussion mailing > list, send email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "UNSUBSCRIBE" > as the message body > Visit the BYU UUG website at: http://uug.clubs.byu.edu/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from the BYU UUG discussion mailing list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "UNSUBSCRIBE" as the message body Visit the BYU UUG website at: http://uug.clubs.byu.edu/
