On 15-Aug-00, 17:12 (CDT), Eray Ozkural <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was confused by not having ifconfig in my user path. On this > machine, there's only a dial-up net connection, and it has some small > connectivity problems. I need to check whether the line's really up. I > found myself going super-user to issue the command rather than running > /sbin/ifconfig. >
I can see that typing 'sudo ifconfig' might be easier than '/sbin/ifconfig', depending on how one's fingers are wired. What I cannot figure out is why typing 'ln -s /sbin/ifconfig ~/bin' *once* is not easier than either... Steve
