On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 12:55:09AM -0400, Peter Olson wrote: > > On May 3, 2016 at 11:43 PM Joel Roth <[email protected]> wrote: > > [...] > > > Interesting, I thought /sbin was historically for statically > > linked executables needed at boot time, or for system > > recovery. > > The /sbin and /usr/sbin are analogous to /bin and /usr/sbin but they contain > programs for administrative purposes such as adduser which require privileges > and are not needed by user logins or might not be expected for ordinary user > access. > > On some distros ifconfig is in one of these and isn't visible to the user, > even > though it might be useful. >
This is just a mishap. You might include /sbin in your PATH and ifconfig automagically becomes available to you. Not all the executables in /sbin and /usr/sbin require root privilege to run... PDSCE KatolaZ -- [ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ --- GLUG Catania -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ me [at] katolaz.homeunix.net -- http://katolaz.homeunix.net -- ] [ GNU/Linux User:#325780/ICQ UIN: #258332181/GPG key ID 0B5F062F ] [ Fingerprint: 8E59 D6AA 445E FDB4 A153 3D5A 5F20 B3AE 0B5F 062F ] _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
