Unix administration - Re: Crontab Linux FC 1

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Re: Crontab Linux FC 1

Mikko Nahkola

2005-09-21, 5:54 pm

In article <s36703-7k5.ln1@don.localnet>, Bill Marcum wrote:
> On 20 Sep 2005 14:59:01 -0700, yezi
> <ye_line@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Are you sure ping is in /sbin? It's in /bin on my Ubuntu system.
> ifconfig and route are in /sbin.

Well... obivously it depends.

$ type ping
ping is /usr/sbin/ping
$ ls -l /sbin/pi*
/sbin/pi* not found

Unfortunately ping is one of the utilities that are never where you
expect, and one that you need fairly often too.

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Mikko Nahkola <mnahkola@trein.ntc.nokia.com>
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