[Fwd: [ale] 2 Questions]

Robert Heaven robertheaven at earthlink.net
Mon Dec 30 08:58:17 EST 2002


Yes, I found it in /sbin...

So, I just vi'd my .bash_profile and added /sbin to my path and now I
can even use it as myself...

On Mon, 2002-12-30 at 08:52, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> Robert -
> 
> Are you *sure* you don't have them, i.e., locate ifconfig yields
> nothing?  On Man9.0, ifconfig is in /sbin and therefore isn't in the
> default generic user's path.
> 
> - Jeff
> 
> On Mon, 2002-12-30 at 08:43, Robert Heaven wrote:
> > Next Question:
> > 
> > In which packages do they hide the "ifconfig" and "arp" commands?
> > 
> > When RH put together their "User Desktop" bundle, they really meant
> > "Dumb ex Microsoft User Desktop"... they didn't include any of the usual
> > power tools that most of us are accustom to having.
> > 
> > -----Forwarded Message-----
> > 
> > From: Robert Heaven <robertheaven at earthlink.net>
> > To: ale at ale.org
> > Subject: [ale] 2 Questions
> > Date: 29 Dec 2002 22:22:17 -0500
> > 
> > I just switched from Mandrake to Red Hat and have 2 issues.
> > 
> > 1. I copied my entire home directory to CDRW then copied the "evolution"
> > (1.0.8) subdir back to my new home (same user name as before).
> > Everything is fine except my Contacts. For some reason it won't show me
> > my contacts even though I have the same
> > ~/evolution/local/Contacts/addressbook.db
> > 
> > 2. I can't find the "strings" command. Which rpm package is it in?
> > 
> > 
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