I recently installed Slackware 9.1 and when I execute the ifconfig command
it shows me my interfaces but then seg faults. I have some scripts that
depend on the output of ifconfig but they no longer function since ifconfig
is exiting with an error it appears the output is not being passed through
the pipe i.e.

ifconfig | grep eth0

doesn't work since ifconfig exits with an error (exits with a non-zero
status in $?).

This started as soon as I installed Slack 9.1. Anyone else have this
problem? Is ifconfig available by itself so I can just download and compile
it? Google hasn't helped me out with this issue yet. Although I am
planning on doing more searching.

On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 20:52:57 -0600, Michael Parmeley <mjparme@hotmail.com>
wrote:
> Is ifconfig available by itself so I can just download and compile
> it?

You can download the package it comes in from:
<URL:$MIRROR/slackware-9.1/source/n/tcpip/net-tools-1.60.tar.bz2> &
<URL:$MIRROR/slackware-9.1/source/n/tcpip/net-tools.diff.gz>.

You can compile it using (a modified version of how Pat does it):

zcat net-tools.diff.gz | patch -p1 --backup
make ifconfig
su -c install -m 0755 ifconfig /sbin


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