[Fwd: [ale] 2 Questions]

Jeff Hubbs hbbs at attbi.com
Mon Dec 30 08:52:20 EST 2002


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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