[NTLUG:Discuss] Basic terminal question

[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?
>

As root, su -c ifconfig didn't work in Fedora but /sbin/ifconfig, did.
In SUSE su -c shutdown -now didn't work but /sbin/shutdown -now, did.

To Steve Baker: I will check out .profile and .login. These are the kinds of
hints that really help me.

Thanks,
Bradley