[NTLUG:Discuss] Basic terminal question

[lee]

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?

yes.  a likely explanation is that the default user $PATH is different 
between distributions.

-- lee