On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:05:34 -0500, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > However, "ifconfig -a" does not redefine hardware interfaces and > is not a system administration task.
Strictly speaking, that is true. However, this "user" was about to redefine his hardware interfaces; and issuing "ifconfig -a" was one step in the overall process. The overall process *is* a system administration task. On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:05:34 -0500, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Asking a user to become root > to run this command is not a good advice. 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. As for me, I will continue to give advice based on what works on a plain vanilla Debian system unless otherwise noted. And you of course are free to disagree with me. Peace, my friend. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
