Re: Where is ifconfig in SuSe 10.1?

David Bolt wrote:
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 just run as root all the time. :-)

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.

Interesting. Nevere heard about it. However the moments I use traceroute
it is mainly to see the first few steps to see if I can go outside of my
ISP. If I want to see if the server is actually running, I use `curl -I`
for a webserver or telnet on the apropriate port on anything else.

Trough experience I know that traceroute and especially ping are lousy to
detect problems.

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.

I once was also interested in learning about this, but each and every
question I asked about examples and how to do easy packaging where answerd
by: RTFM. Another answer was that I first must become a specialist
before I could asnwer questions. That is also the reason I am not
intersted in becoming a packager, even though I do have access to the
buildserver.

The st00pid thing is that when you look around openSUSE.org, you can
find examples on how to pacvkage GNOME or KDE package¹s, but when you
just want to package a script, the answer was: sorry, it is not possible
to make an example, because ther are so many thing to consider, please
first learn about RPM.

¹http://en.opensuse.org/SUSE_Build_Tutorial
houghi
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