bash: ipconfig command not found

[imported_mblanco2000]

I am new to the linux world. i am running redhat 9 i am having trouble when trying to get my local ip address.

ipconfig -a|more

says ipconfig command not found

weird thing is i can man ipconfig

the same thing also happens with init and telinit which should be linked.
thanks for the help

[Dillinger]

I've never heard of ipconfig, but if it exists you probably have to be root to run it. I know of ifconfig, which has a man page but has root only permissions. So su root then run it.

[kihbord]

Hi,

I believe what you want to do is:

ifconfig -a | more

not

ipconfig -a | more

ipconfig is a Windows command -- ifconfig is the Linux/Unix
equivalent.

If you are not logged in as root, specify the directory where the command
is located:

/sbin/ifconfig -a |more

Hope that helps.

[Dillinger]

Hey thanks kihbord, I didn't know that I could run it as a regular user.

[Hellmasker]

ur not meant to be able to. i can coz i suid'ed it but it wasnt avalible to normal users by default.

[imported_mblanco2000]

I appreciate the help. i could have sworn I did that last night but your suggestions helped out so much. i look forward to getting better at this and helping all of you. Thanks again.

MB

[kihbord]

Sorry for the confusion, Hellmasker is right -- you can not perform configuration tasks using ifconfig. You would have to be root.

You can only view the current configuration as a normal user.

Thanks for the note Hellmasker.

[Dolda2000]

You might want to consider /sbin/ifconfig | less if you need a pager, though. As long as you have a non-dumb terminal, more is kind of defunct today, don't you think?