[NTLUG:Discuss] Basic terminal question

[Bradley's List Address]

> 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
> 
That was it. Thank you.
I figured if I was in the directory sbin and typed ifconfig it would work.
I was wrong.
I will try to learn more about the path concept.

Bradley