Comands not working.
This is a discussion about Comands not working. in the Everything Linux category; Hi I've been using Fedora Core 3 for a while now and I've started to notice that some basic UNIX commands don't work. When I've tried using the iptables command from the terminal I get a bash: iptables: command not found error.
Hi I've been using Fedora Core 3 for a while now and I've started to notice that some basic UNIX commands don't work. When I've tried using the iptables command from the terminal I get a
bash: iptables: command not found
error. I also get this error when I've tried to use the cvs command as well as a few other I can't remeber off the top of my head.
Any ideas as to why these commands don't work for me?
Thanks,
bash: iptables: command not found
error. I also get this error when I've tried to use the cvs command as well as a few other I can't remeber off the top of my head.
Any ideas as to why these commands don't work for me?
Thanks,
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It probably means that you don't have the software installed.
Have you tried to invoke these commands as root user in a terminal window?
OP
Yeah i've tried as root user and I get the same error. Would the programs i need to install be on the Fedora distro disks? or would I have to download them from somewhere?
Thanks guys,
Thanks guys,
In Fedora/Redhat, you often have to include the absolute path. Say for ifconfig you have to go:
Code:
Code:
Code:
/sbin/ifconfig...and so on. Do a command line search for iptables and see where it is, then do the command again with the absolute path as root. It might be at:
Code:
/usr/sbin/iptables
Thanks Dan, forgot that about fedora....
Just type in whereis name of command/utility that you want to use. That will give you the relative path that Dan spoke about.
Just type in whereis name of command/utility that you want to use. That will give you the relative path that Dan spoke about.
OP
Hey, thanks a lot I've got everything working now.
