[NTLUG:Discuss] Basic terminal question

[Rev. wRy]

On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 23:06, Bradley's List Address wrote:
> When using the terminal in my Fedora 2 machines, "ifconfig" is not
> recoginized, but works in a SUSE 9.2 terminal.

What is your path?  Try /sbin/ifconfig

If you are a regular user, it's probably not in your default path.

> The command "shutdown" works in Fedora , but is not recognized in SUSE.

Same issue, more than likely.

> I feel like I am missing something very fundamental here.
> Can you tell me why this happens?
> 
> Thanks,
> Bradley

RW