On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Frank Reichenbacher wrote:
> Why can I not run these utilities from a shell prompt (as root)? I installed
> network-tools RPM and it sent the files to /sbin, but they don't run. I
> finally figured out that RH6.2 does not install these automatically with
> Gnome installation. I'm troubleshooting DHCP setup and all of the How-to's
> have you working with ifconfig.
>
> BTW, the Gnome RPM manager lists a bunch of the RPM's with a "(S)" after the
> name. What's that?
>
What error message do you get? Are they actually installed? Do you find
them if you do a "locate [command name]"? There is a good chance that
they don't run because they are not found in your path. If that's the
case, all you need to do is specify the absolute path in the command line:
/sbin/ifconfig -a
If that works you can then add the /sbin directory to your path in the
.bashrc or .bash_profile files.
Let me know if that answers your question.
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