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Old 12-13-2005   #11 (permalink)
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"which" is not going to find it if it's not in the PATH (which it obviously isn't). But yes it is usually at /sbin/ifconfig
You can see that spoon already told you it wasn't going to work like that.
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You can su to root before running it.
It will work if you do this.

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http://www.whatismyip.com/
Thanks Cabhan. I was just wondering if there was a way I could do it without using a website like this. Is there some way for me to interrogate the router for this information??
I dun have the root user permission
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You should. What happens when you try to su into root?

Did you choose what groups you were added to during install?

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I dun have the root user permission
Do you mean you don't know the root password, or you don't know how to get root permissions??
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I dun have the root user permission
Do you mean you don't know the root password, or you don't know how to get root permissions??
I don't know the root password
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You should. What happens when you try to su into root?

Did you choose what groups you were added to during install?

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It ask for password
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You can su to root before running it.

Or try
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which ifconfig
and then type the full path as a normal user. (In my case it is /sbin/ifconfig.)
it gives me the following error message
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which: no ifconfig in (/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/usr/lib/java/bin:/usr/lib/java/jre/bin:.)
You could try:

locate ifconfig

and that should turn it up if the locatedb is up to date.
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You can su to root before running it.

Or try
Code:
which ifconfig
and then type the full path as a normal user. (In my case it is /sbin/ifconfig.)
it gives me the following error message
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which: no ifconfig in (/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/usr/lib/java/bin:/usr/lib/java/jre/bin:.)
You could try:

locate ifconfig

and that should turn it up if the locatedb is up to date.
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"which" is not going to find it if it's not in the PATH (which it obviously isn't). But yes it is usually at /sbin/ifconfig
You can see that spoon already told you it wasn't going to work like that.
Quote:
Originally Posted by anomie
You can su to root before running it.
It will work if you do this.

Quote:
Originally Posted by Cabhan
http://www.whatismyip.com/
Thanks Cabhan. I was just wondering if there was a way I could do it without using a website like this. Is there some way for me to interrogate the router for this information??
What do you need the external IP for ? to ssh to or access a web page maybe ?

You could use a dynamic DNS service so you would just access smolloy.dynip.com or a similar DNS name that wouldn't change.
http://www.dyndns.com/
http://www.dynamip.com/

Then you run a Dyanmic IP client on your workstation that 'phones home' to the dynamic DNS service to update your IP address and keey your DNS name pointed at it..

Really a neat service for home users.
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Thanks farslayer (and apologies to the original poster for hijacking this thread ). I've been thinking about setting up a ssh server, and was wondering how to solve the problem of having a dynamic IP. Thanks for the info.
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Wow, who would have guessed a thread about displaying your NIC's IP could get so long.

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"which" is not going to find it if it's not in the PATH (which it obviously isn't).
True. I should have said
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whereis ifconfig
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