On Wednesday 05 November 2003 02:13 pm, Brian Densmore wrote:

> dhcpcd may be designed as runnable only be root.
> So it may not be in your path.

> To find it try running
> 'whereis dhcpcd' from a shell prompt.
> Probably in /sbin or /user/sbin

Brian's right, the DHCP client is usually an /sbin function, and on my 
Mandrake system it's "/sbin/dhclient".  Apropos may be helpful in finding 
such things - apropos dhcp gives several hints that point to the dhclient 
command.

locate, whereis, aporops, which - all useful in such matters.