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Operating Systems Solaris IFCONFIG is available... sort of Post 302681673 by jlliagre on Friday 3rd of August 2012 08:05:06 PM
Old 08-03-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by Corona688
Did you check the full path on the remote system, though? It might be a different full path on your remote system than your local one. See, mine is /sbin/ifconfig. /usr/ seems a bit odd to me.
Older Solaris releases used to provide two different ifconfig binaries, one in /sbin and the other in /usr/sbin, with a slightly different behavior regarding the name service resolution order.
Recent releases have /usr/sbin/ifconfig being just a symbolic link to /sbin/ifconfig.
 

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FusionInventory::Agent::Tools::Unix(3pm)		User Contributed Perl Documentation		  FusionInventory::Agent::Tools::Unix(3pm)

NAME
FusionInventory::Agent::Tools::Unix - Unix-specific generic functions DESCRIPTION
This module provides some Unix-specific generic functions. FUNCTIONS
getDeviceCapacity(%params) Returns storage capacity of given device, using fdisk. Availables parameters: logger a logger object device the device to use getIpDhcp Returns an hashref of information for current DHCP lease. getFilesystemsFromDf(%params) Returns a list of filesystems as a list of hashref, by parsing given df command output. logger a logger object command the exact command to use file the file to use, as an alternative to the command getFilesystemsTypesFromMount(%params) Returns a list of used filesystems types, by parsing given mount command output. logger a logger object command the exact command to use file the file to use, as an alternative to the command getProcessesFromPs(%params) Returns a list of processes as a list of hashref, by parsing given ps command output. logger a logger object command the exact command to use file the file to use, as an alternative to the command getRoutingTable Returns the routing table as an hashref, by parsing netstat command output. logger a logger object command the exact command to use (default: netstat -nr -f inet) file the file to use, as an alternative to the command perl v5.14.2 2012-06-25 FusionInventory::Agent::Tools::Unix(3pm)
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