11 May
2005
11 May
'05
18:41
On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 13:49 -0400, Ken Schneider wrote:
rcnetwork restart to see if becomes available. You can check this with either dmesg or (as root) ifconfig. ifconfig actually works (in "read only") mode as normal user, it's just not part of the path. You have to run: /sbin/ifconfig
Found this out when I took over care of a bunch of Mandrake 10 boxen (suddenly I appreciate SUSE a lot more than I used to!) without knowing the root password and without being able to shut some of them down. -- Kind regards Hans du Plooy SagacIT (Pty) Ltd hansdp at sagacit dot com