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aligator

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Registered: 2013-10-07

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[solved] ifconfig / iftop don't work

hi

if I execute ifconfig/iftop I get this:

ifconfig will not execute and completion _ifconfig exists.
iftop will not execute and completion _iftop exists.

Maybe I hav this problem with some other commands too...

I Don't understand what this means. Can anyone help me?

aligator

Last edited by aligator (2014-02-24 16:19:41)

karol

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Re: [solved] ifconfig / iftop don't work

Do you have iftop and net-tools installed?

HalosGhost

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Re: [solved] ifconfig / iftop don't work

Hello aligator, a couple suggestions for you. First of all, when posting terminal output (or code snippets), please use code tags, like so:

not using code tags makes unicorns cry

Second, you are far better off switching to iproute2 instead of using ifconfig. ifconfig has been deprecated for a while now.

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Gusar

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Re: [solved] ifconfig / iftop don't work

ifconfig might be considered "deprecated", but the kernel interfaces it uses will probably never get removed, so ifconfig will remain functional. I'm not even sure it's possible to remove these kernel interfaces when doing a manual kernel compile.

karol is right, aligator doesn't have these tools installed. But the bash-completion files for them are installed (they're part of the generic bash-completion package), and that's why the messages.

karol

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Re: [solved] ifconfig / iftop don't work

https://www.archlinux.org/news/deprecat … net-tools/
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/FA … ge_is_X.3F

@Gusar
I don't see completion for ifconfig, but I know nothing about completion, so I may be looking in the wrong place.

$ pkgfile iftop
extra/bash-completion
community/iftop
$ pkgfile ifconfig
core/net-tools

WorMzy

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Re: [solved] ifconfig / iftop don't work

I think OP is using zsh.

$ pkgfile _iftop 
extra/zsh
$ pkgfile _ifconfig
extra/zsh

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Gusar

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Re: [solved] ifconfig / iftop don't work

@Gusar
I don't see completion for ifconfig, but I know nothing about completion, so I may be looking in the wrong place.

Oops, I must admit, I only checked iftop . It seems WorMzy is onto something

aligator

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Re: [solved] ifconfig / iftop don't work

hi

Thank you for the answers. Yes I use zsh.
And I hadn't installed the net-tools and iftop. But because there was no "command not found", I didn't think that it isn't installed...
Thank you for telling me that it is deprecated.

aligator

Last edited by aligator (2014-02-24 16:20:11)

karol

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Re: [solved] ifconfig / iftop don't work

See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pkgfile for how to enable "Command not found" hook.
Before:

$ iftop
bash: iftop: command not found

After:

$ iftop
iftop may be found in the following packages:
  community/iftop 1.0pre4-1	/usr/bin/iftop

Edit:

Thank you for telling me that it is deprecated.

https://www.archlinux.org/news/deprecat … net-tools/

Last edited by karol (2014-02-24 16:26:49)