On 2023-05-13 10:43:54 -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On 5/13/23 06:02, Jeremy Ardley wrote: > > > > On 13/5/23 17:57, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > Moreover, it should not be necessary to be root: you are just > > > reading non-private data. However, "list countries" does not > > > seem to exist. > > > > Debian 11 seems to have a different opinion on who can run ifconfig. > > Sudo or root is required. > > > > jeremy@client:~$ ifconfig enp8s0 > > bash: ifconfig: command not found > > jeremy@client:~$ sudo ifconfig enp8s0 > > enp8s0: flags=4098<BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > > ether 0c:9d:92:75:b4:f7 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) > > RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B) > > RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 > > TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B) > > TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 > That is not a radio interface, so for the OP use is just noise.
The fact that ifconfig can be found in the run path or not is not related to whether it is used with a radio interface. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
