Missing commands/functions

[ron flory]

Jeffrey Paul Burger wrote:

> I'm running Yellow Dog 4.0 on a dual 2.5 G5. I can't find any command such
> as tmpfs (missing) to create a virtual disk, and can't figure out how to get
> any kind of networking running for file sharing (missing ifconfig for
> starters). I'm assuming that I need to add a package or something, but I
> don't know enough to know what or how. Or are there other workarounds for
> these needs? If I need to reinstall, any tips would be appreciated since
> I've done an install only once a long time ago and am a bit intimidated
> about any problems or ripple effect! Assistance greatly appreciated!

  are you sure ifconfig is missing?  were you logged in as root when you
tried to run ifconfig?  Other users generally must type /sbin/ifconfig
because /sbin is generally not in the non-root-user search path.

  This is normal.

ron