On 2012-08-08 13:38:36 +0200, Alberto Fuentes wrote: > [extra non usuful comments] > Those commands without root permissions are not dangerous. ifconfig seems > the most obvious that a non expert would want to run. ipconfig/ifconfig eth0 > are easy to run/remember. > > ip addr show eth0 is not. ip has too many switches/options. Its nice and its > my tool of choice as an admin, but i would not say is user friendly and i > understand it will be hard to kill (if it is ever killed)
And ip is not standard (not present on every Linux systems), whereas I don't know any system without ifconfig. Anyway it's up to the user to choose the commands he wants. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120808131158.ga25...@xvii.vinc17.org
