Re: Where is ifconfig in SuSe 10.1?

On Sat, 26 Aug 2006, houghi <houghi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:-

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If you use this often as a user, there are several ways to solve this. I
will give two reasonably save ways:
1) Make an alias "alias sbin='/sbin/ifconfig'. I am not sure if the
deault ~/.bashrc looks in ~/.alias, but that is where I have my aliases
placed.
2) ln -s /sbin/ifconfig /usr/local/bin/ifconfig

The latter is one I had considered, except putting the symlink in
/usr/bin, but decided against it. If I need to use ifconfig as a normal
user, I just include the path.

I have done the last for traceroute.

Strangely, I can't honestly understand why traceroute is installed into
/sbin. However, while I do create a symlink, I rarely actually use
traceroute. Instead, I prefer to use tcptraceroute which performs an
almost identical task and seems to see some of the hosts that usually
firewall ICMP and UDP traceroutes.

Home page is here:

<URL:http://michael.toren.net/code/tcptraceroute/>

and my SUSE packages are available here:

<URL:http://www.davjam.org/~davjam/linux/tcptraceroute/>

The first is ideal for one user, the second for all users.

Then again, you could always make either one RPM that creates all the
symlinks, or a series of them with that create just the one link and has
a requirement that the base package exists.

Just in case you're wondering, yes I am having fun making lots of small,
quite superfluous packages. One example is the one making the symlink
for traceroute. And all this in the name of learning more about RPM and
building spec files.


Regards,
David Bolt

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