[vacri]

I used ifconfig until about halfway through last year when someone pointed 'ip' out to me. I kept using ifconfig right up until the point I found that ip didn't require root rights...

[ominous_prime]

Neither needs root privileges to display interface status. Perhaps it's a PATH issue for you - sbin/ is often left out of the PATH for regular users.

[vacri]

Fair enough, thanks for the info. I just generally found that I couldn't simply make it work on a standard debian install and assumed it was permissions.

ta