[NTLUG:Discuss] Basic terminal question

[Steve Baker]

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?

I believe the difference is that the SuSE default user setup does not
put the /sbin directory into your search path unless you are root.  Evidently,
Fedora puts /sbin on every user's search path.

You could fix that in your '.profile' or '.login' script - but alternatively,
you might recognise that those commands are things that you would normally
have to be 'root' to execute and so an 'su -' before you run them.

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