Re: can't find ping, route and ifconfig commands.

[Johnny Billquist <bqt%update.uu.se@localhost>]

On 2020-06-12 09:58, Ottavio Caruso wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Jun 2020 at 21:08, yilkal argaw <yilkalargawworkneh%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> > I'm a newbie and I installed netbsd 9.0 using the iso. After
> > installation every thing worked fine but I am missing the the ping,
> > route and ifconfig commands. Since the network autoconf worked
> > perfectly I can install packages but I can't  find  the package that
> > contains them. The documentations imply that they are installed by
> > default. Is there something I'm missing.
>
> Have you added yourself to the wheel group? Can you use those commands
> as root? Can you post the output of "id" and "echo $PATH" for your
> standard user?

Anyone can use them, You don't need to be in any special group.
However, most users by default don't have /sbin and /usr/sbin in their 
path, so you need to add that, or else run the programs using an 
explicit path.

  Johny

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