Pls help me : tried all still ifconfig not working

[neverforgetniraj]

sir ,

when i enter ifconfig , my red hat server 5 states an error....

bash:ifconfig command not found


....I have tried updatedb
....ran ifconfig from /sbin/ifconfig
....ran as root user


although it shows in /sbin

but still doesnt runs from there..


Hoping for a quick and positive response......

..nIRAj..

[coopstah13]

can you show exact output in terminal when you execute the command?
btw, when you say red hat 5, do you mean RHEL5?

[ursusca]

Hi,

ifconfig

command you can run under root user only. If you want to switch to root user from usual user try

$ su - 
Password:

[neverforgetniraj]

thanks for ur reply

but i have tried under root user too,

still showing command not found.

[Lazydog]

thanks for ur reply

but i have tried under root user too,

still showing command not found.

Please give us some output as folows:

Fri Oct 16 17:37:29] [root] /

~ $ locate ifconfig
/usr/share/fish/completions/ifconfig.fish
/usr/share/man/fr/man8/ifconfig.8.gz
/usr/share/man/de/man8/ifconfig.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ifconfig.8.gz
/usr/share/man/pt/man8/ifconfig.8.gz
/usr/share/zsh/4.2.0/functions/_ifconfig
/sbin/ifconfig

[Fri Oct 16 17:37:19] [root] /

~ $ ifconfig
bash: ifconfig: command not found

[Fri Oct 16 17:37:23] [root] /

~ $ /sbin/ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:11:D8:95:65:7D
          inet addr:192.168.1.100  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:16007947 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:11998359 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:2187767098 (2.0 GiB)  TX bytes:1894897314 (1.7 GiB)
          Interrupt:185 Memory:fac00000-0

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:36814 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:36814 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:6352889 (6.0 MiB)  TX bytes:6352889 (6.0 MiB)

The above is using sudo so it is correct.

[waterhead]

Try using the entire path to the command.

$ /sbin/ifconfig

It may be in a different folder than /sbin.

Don't cd to the folder, just include it in the command.

[ursusca]

You didn't ask on qestion:

...when you say red hat 5, do you mean RHEL5?

So what is your system?

uname -a

[neverforgetniraj]

/sbin/ifconfig working fine


then why not "ifconfig"

[oz]

/sbin/ifconfig working fine


then why not "ifconfig"

Welcome to the forums!

It's a path issue under Fedora, but this wiki page explains it all and how to fix it:

Features/SbinSanity - FedoraProject

[ursusca]

Have a look at my example:
I ran terminal in Gnome desktop environment om my Linux CentOS 5.3
Under regular user:

$ ifconfig
bash: ifconfig: command not found
 /sbin/ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet ......

Under root user:

$ su
Password: 
[root@bearcentos mike]# ifconfig
bash: ifconfig: command not found

but

$ su - 
Password: 
[root@bearcentos ~]# ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet .....

How do you log on under root user?