[NTLUG:Discuss] Basic terminal question

[Fred James]

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.
>
>The command "shutdown" works in Fedora , but is not recognized in SUSE.
>
>I feel like I am missing something very fundamental here.
>Can you tell me why this happens?
>
>Thanks,
>Bradley
>
>  
>
Which user are you in each case?  In MDK, some commands are not known 
unless one is root.
Hope this helps
Regards
Fred James

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