From: Vincent Lefevre on
On 2010-01-29 12:04:29 -0500, Stephen Powell wrote:
[ifconfig in /sbin instead of /bin]
> If you feel strongly about this, then I suggest that you
> file a bug report against the net-tools package and complain
> that ifconfig should be moved from /sbin to /bin (or some other
> directory in a normal user's path).

In fact, a bug (wishlist) has already been reported:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=312669

But after more than 4 years, it is still open. The ifconfig command
is said to be deprecated in favour of iproute (which now seems to
be called "ip"), which is in /bin.

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From: Alex Samad on
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 03:47:55AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2010-01-29 12:04:29 -0500, Stephen Powell wrote:

[snip]

> is said to be deprecated in favour of iproute (which now seems to
> be called "ip"), which is in /bin.


iproute is the package ip is the bin
>

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