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		vacri on Feb 23, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Eth0 no more? I used ifconfig until about halfway through last year when someone pointed 'ip' out to me. I kept using ifconfig right up until the point I found that ip didn't require root rights...

ominous_prime on Feb 24, 2011 [–]

Neither needs root privileges to display interface status. Perhaps it's a PATH issue for you - sbin/ is often left out of the PATH for regular users.

vacri on Feb 25, 2011 | [–]

Fair enough, thanks for the info. I just generally found that I couldn't simply make it work on a standard debian install and assumed it was permissions.

ta

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