And id you can not run that command as a simple user there must be a reason
why you were locked out of it! "My boss" As of 5 mins ago stated that. :)
P.S. Why make something so difficult ping the box that will tell you the ip
address.
Cheers,
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Johnson, Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 3:56 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] How to see IP address?
Sarang Lakare wrote:
>
> >
> > grep IP /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
>
> This i thought was the best of all the solutions!.. it gives a bad output
> though which i'll have to filter out somehow..
>
> btw, I want to know the IP as a user.. so cant' run ifconfig..
>
> This, I think is the bottleneck of linux and _has_ to be improved.. Why
> shldn't a user know his own IP address?? why does he have to be root to do
> that!! its rediculous!..
>
> -sarang
Users don't have IP addresses: devices do...
As a non-root user, this works grandly, and is SIMPLE:
$/sbin/ifconfig | grep "inet addr:"
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