Subject: Re: RedHat 8.0 help
From: Jim Gribbin (jewelrysupplier@gci.net)
Date: Fri Feb 28 2003 - 13:49:02 AKST
A straight 'su' doesn't give you the root path. Either use 'su -' (gives
you the root path) or '/sbin/ifconfig', or '/sbin/route'.
Jim Gribbin
On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 10:55, dan-wolf@gci.net wrote:
> Recently I have decided to protest the French and German Governments position with regard to their actions at the UN. My protest consists of switching from any further use or purchase of either SUSE or Linux-Mandrake Linux Products. Instead I have switched to RedHat and I am for the most part very happy and impressed with the product. I do however have a couple of questions. So if there are any users that are running RH8.0 maybe they can point me in the right direction so I can figure out the following.
>
> 1) when logged in with my user account I can NOT run either the 'ifconfig' nor 'route' commands in a terminal, even if I have su'd to root. However if I log in as root they run fine.
>
> 2) I purchased a copy of Redhat Linux Firewalls yesterday an B & N..... excellent IMHO it mentions the 'iptraf' command yet I am unable to run or even find it. Does anyone know if it was simply not included or ????
>
> TIA
> ~Dan
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