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Old 01-20-2003
Why do I have to cd into /sbin to get to ifconfig?
I have to cd into /sbin in order to use ifconfig to check out my network cards. This has only started to happen since I downloaded the last update from RedHat(The machine runs RedHat 8.0).

Does anyone know what happened?

More importantly, are there any sources that can help me with this issue?
# 2  
Old 01-20-2003
usually, only root has /sbin in their PATH. so you can copy the file to /bin, however i would like to preserve the layout of the filesystem, so i would suggest just put /sbin in your PATH. oh yeah, this has probably changed with the update because RedHat decided to change the location, so nothing is wrong with your system.
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Old 01-20-2003
My suggestion is to put /sbin in your path.....

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Old 01-21-2003
That was it. Thanks for the help!!
 
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