installed "net-tools" but still no "ifconfig"

[syscon]

I just installed Debian Stable
I was looking to use "ifconfig" instead of "ip a" and according to instructions from various web-pages all I need to do is to install "net-tools" in order for to use "ifconfig".
So I installed "net-tools" but "ifconfig" is not working: command not found.

[Head_on_a_Stick]

http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=142973

EDIT: to clarify:

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~$ ifconfig
oksh: ifconfig: not found
127~$ sudo which ifconfig
/usr/sbin/ifconfig
~$ /usr/sbin/ifconfig
lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING>  mtu 65536
        inet 127.0.0.1  netmask 255.0.0.0
        inet6 ::1  prefixlen 128  scopeid 0x10<host>
        loop  txqueuelen 1000  (Local Loopback)
        RX packets 11782  bytes 1386305 (1.3 MiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 11782  bytes 1386305 (1.3 MiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

wlan0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        inet 192.168.0.176  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 192.168.0.255
        inet6 fe80::2279:18ff:fee7:4069  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>
        ether 20:79:18:e7:40:69  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 344694  bytes 456190746 (435.0 MiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 1  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 104238  bytes 16408037 (15.6 MiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

~$

So add /usr/sbin & /sbin to your user's $PATH.

For example:

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echo 'export PATH="/sbin:/usr/sbin:$PATH"' >> ~/.xsessionrc

Or just call the full path to the command.

[syscon]

Thank you for quick reply. Yes, it worked.

[syscon]

The command "ifconfig" now works from command line at the terminal but if I login over "ssh", "ifconfig" is not working only "/sbin/ifconfig"

[Head_on_a_Stick]

~/.xsessionrc only applies to X sessions (hence the name), for SSH you will need to edit $PATH via ~/.profile

To prevent $PATH being bloated out by multiple entries steal Arch's append_path() function and add this to the end of ~/.profile:

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append_path () {
    case ":$PATH:" in
        *:"$1":*)
            ;;
        *)
            PATH="${PATH:+$PATH:}$1"
    esac
}
append_path /usr/sbin
append_path /sbin
export PATH

EDIT: or just use a simple alias in your shell configuration file (~/.bashrc if you're using bash):

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alias ifconfig=/sbin/ifconfig