I'm building linux from scratch in a virtual machine

[Stephen Partington]

If the permissions are set the command is not even visible. With certain
commands that is ideal because it is harder to manipulate a file you cannot
even see.


On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 10:20 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> the problem was that I wasn't running it as root. I come to find it
> doesn't give a permission denied error. it's fine now! thanks:)
>
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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> On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 10:04 PM, Lisa Kachold <lisakachold at obnosis.com>wrote:
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>> Michael,
>>
>> This sounds like a path/permissions issue in your terminal shell.
>>
>> $ sudo locate ifconfig
>> $ sudo ifconfig
>> $ sudo su -
>> $ su -
>>
>> Call me to discuss.
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>> On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 8:09 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> I need to find the ip of the virtual debian machine. I tried ipconfig.
>>> Command not found. I tried ifconfig. Command not found. Well I thought one
>>> of those commands was right!  Then I tried apt-get: unable to locate
>>> package. I remember there was another command that would give me the info I
>>> want. Please, what is it?
>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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