TN Scale - find the MAC address - ifconfig not available in shell?

[flashdrive]

Finding the MAC Address

I Have just set up my first FreeNAS server to use with my Macbook. Because my wife has a tendancy to turn off the computer i have a little app to use wake up on LAN to turn them on from my laptop. To use this for my new FreeNAS machine i will need the mac address - does anyone know how i...

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This works from the Mac side.

I was not able to find ifconfig or ipconfig in the webgui shell - is this not available?

 

[Arwen]

It is probably your PATH, which probably does not include the "sbin" directories. The ifconfig command is located here;
/usr/sbin/ifconfig

 

[Whattteva]

I was not able to find ifconfig or ifconfig in the webgui shell - it this not available?

That's because SCALE is Linux and they've mostly "deprecated" ifconfig in favor of ip. It's just another one of those Linuxisms.
Try ip link or ip addr instead. Those should be available even as a non super user.

 

[flashdrive]

Thank you @Arwen and @Whattteva

Might this PATH topic also be the solution for the shutdown issue here?

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