The ip commands have been around since Centos 6 if not earlier. you can do
things with them that you can't do with ifconfig, such as setup policy
routing rule sets..
On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 11:27 AM Stephen John Smoogen <smooge@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Oct 2019 at 14:11, David G. Miller <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On 10/22/19 10:55 AM, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
> > > Hello Experts!
> > >
> > > I'm sure many of you run CentOS for some time already.
> > >
> > > My question is: is there some place that lists which of the most often
> > > used sysadmin commands are gone and what are replacements for them. Or
> > > what else one needs to do after successful installation. (in the past
> > > it was process accounting that was not enabled by default, but which
> > > gives you quite some handle in investigating compromise).
> > >
> > > I just tried quite ordinaly command of freshly installed CentOS 8:
> > >
> > > last
> > >
> > > and got an error:
> > >
> > > last: (default utx db): No such file or directory
> > >
> > > I realize that it could be just me, and I'll cope with that myself one
> > > way or another but this one prompted me to ask everybody: Is there
> > > anything I can read so I can learn what differenmt to expect on CentOS
> > > 8 from, say, CentOS 7?
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > > Valeri
> > >
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> > > Valeri Galtsev
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> > Saw your later response that the problem was solved but this is an
> > interesting question that deserves an answer (and not just what changed
> > in RHEL8). As an example, I'm used to ifconfig and route but keep
> > getting reminded that these commands are now deprecated and "ip" should
> > be used instead. Likewise for using dnf instead of yum, systemctl
>
> I think that the deprecation of ifconfig and route was started before
> RHEL-7 came out.. and yet I just can't get used to them.
>
> > instead of service, firewallcmd instead of iptables, etc. I wonder how
> > many shell scripts there are "out there" that folks have written or
> > accumulated over the years and which now need to be updated before
> > deprecated becomes no longer available? Or, like using iptables instead
> > of firewallcmd, may cause something very different than what is expected.
> >
> > Anyone know of any resource out there that might provide such
> documentation?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Dave
> >
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