[NTLUG:Discuss] Basic terminal question

[Terry]

On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 23:06:24 -0600, Bradley's List Address
<Brad.List at thingbuilder.com> wrote:
> When using the terminal in my Fedora 2 machines, "ifconfig" is not
> recoginized, but works in a SUSE 9.2 terminal.
> 
try:
su -c ifconfig

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

Try:
su -c shudtown -now
or
su -c shutdown -t 10
to shutdown in 10 seconds

In other words, ... may be, or could it be, that you need root privileges?

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