Re: [WBEL-users] No chkconfig or ifconfig commands?

On 7/1/06, Johnny Hughes <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-06-30 at 17:59 -0500, Jeffery Mathis wrote:
> > I am trying to configure a DNS server using WBEL, but when I run the
> > chkconfig or ifconfig commands, I get "command not found".  I'm new to
> > WBEL, but I do have prior experience with Red Hat and CentOS.  What is
> > going on here?  Does WBEL use different commands or something?
>
> Maybe you did not login with root in a way that gives you full
> environment variables.
>
> Normally, administration is done as the root user and not another user,
> and you can get to be root in a couple ways.
>
> The most common is to open a terminal and use the su (switch users)
> command.  When using "su", you need to use a "-" with the command to get
> all the user's environment variables (including the PATH):
>
> so to become "root" with all variables set ....
>
> su -
>
> OR
>
> su - root
>
> If you use su by itself without the the "-" {ie, "su" or "su root"} you
> will have root privileges but will stay in your current directory and
> not have all environment variables (like root's PATH).

Another sonetimes handy option:
"su -m" affords full environment variables, (like root's PATH), but
will leave you in current directory.