I'm building linux from scratch in a virtual machine

[Matt Graham]

>>> Michael Havens  wrote:
>>>> I tried ipconfig. Command not found.
>> Lisa Kachold  wrote:
>>> This sounds like a path/permissions issue in your terminal shell.
> Michael Havens wrote:
>> the problem was that I wasn't running it as root. I come to find it
>> doesn't give a permission denied error.
Stephen Partington wrote:
> If the permissions are set the command is not even visible.

ifconfig and ip are usually in /sbin .  /sbin is not in the PATH for 
normal users, so attempting to run ip or ifconfig as a normal user will 
fail.  /sbin is in root's PATH.  Normal users can always add /sbin to 
their PATH or call the commands with the full path-- /sbin/ifconfig 
should always work.  I almost always have

export PATH=$PATH:/sbin:/usr/sbin:$HOME/bin

in my .bashrc so I don't have to type as much for various things.


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