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	peterleinchen	2012-06-07 , 12:07
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I do not have N9, but:

Originally Posted by tcheupa

Sorry fot the stupid question, but why doesn't "ifconfig" alone work if my working directory is /sbin ?

because you are not root or at least do not have the shell with all env vars of root (need /sbin in PATH)command to excute something not in path is
{dir}/command
in your case
/sbin/command
or also possible (current dir)
./command

Originally Posted by tcheupa

Ok, now with the command ifconfig wlan0 hw ether macadress, I get:
ifconfig: SIOCSIFHWADDR: Operation not permitted

Same applies here. No root access.

Originally Posted by tcheupa

Does it have something to do with Aegis?

NFC

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