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[Glen Pfeiffer]

On Wed May 14, 2008 at 09:07:45PM -0700, Rich wrote:
> On May 13, 2008, at 9:00 pm, Glen Pfeiffer wrote:
> > The reason I assumed the command was root only, is that it 
> > worked as root and not as a non-root user, so I figured it 
> > correctly removed from the non-root user path.
> Well, now I guess you know /sbin contains commands that can do read- 
> only things as a non-root user.

I was not aware of that. Thanks, I am sure that will be useful to 
know.

> > Sure it may be silly to you, but it is a reasonable assumption.
> Well "silly" is subjective. We try stuff out ... right?
> 
> Do you think it's silly to say this?

It's definitely not silly to try things out. That's how I learn 
most things.

> > > And then there's the maxim: Never run as root commands 
> > > which can be run as a regular user.
> 
> > Errrr....thanks? I am not the OP, nor do I need the script.
> 
> No, but check the address I mailed it to. You and *billions* of  
> others! :-P

Point taken.

> > Additionally, I do my part to try to help others but I don't ask
> > for praise and thanks.
> Hey, yeah. I was being unnecessarily snarky with "You're welcome".  
> Sorry. But it *was* in response to your "Too much work". Thanks for  
> recognizing that it *does* take work though...

I work as an application programmer so I definitely recognize the 
work that goes into helping others. I should have let the 
"snarkiness" slide.

> > Forgive me if I am misunderstanding, but I am a bit 
> > inebriated. In this case I don't see what's so hard about 
> > parsing the ifconfig output in your head.
> I dunno, I like a challenge. And often these things prove useful;  
> usually in another script.

And that's a valid enough reason to write a script; for the 
challenge. If I needed to use the output in a script/program, I 
would do what you did too.

Thanks again for the information.

-- 
Glen