Re: Dumb question of the week.

On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 16:48:54 +0000, Paul J Gans wrote:

marksouth <ms@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 04:02:21 +0000, Paul J Gans wrote:

Let me give you (and them) an example. Say I want to run "ifconfig"
to check on something with my network connection. You cannot run that
as a normal user because it will not be found by a normal user's
search path.

/sbin/ifconfig works as a normal user under nearly every distro I've
ever used :-)

How did you know it was in /sbin?

Dunno for sure. Mostly when I recall a command and the first part
doesn't respond to tab completion, I try /sbin next.

No wonder newbies don't stick around here long. Between the insults and
the obfuscated answers they get nowhere.

I'm a little offended by this. You seem to be implying that I'm
insulting newbies, or providing an obfuscated answer.

All I did was point out that a normal user can run ifconfig if they know
the path. How that got to accusations of insults and obfuscation is
difficult to understand from where I'm sitting.
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