# Chapter 7. Configuration

You can configure the pathname of the command used by KDE network utilities if you don't want the command found in the `PATH` variable to be used or if the command in not found the the `PATH`. This can be done in the Edit -> Preferences... menu. The GNU/Debian users will put the traceroute's command to `/usr/sbin/traceroute` as normal users don't have this directory in their path.

The same dialog box allows you to specify arguments to the program. For example, on Sun Solaris computers, you can add `-s` as argument for the ping command.

For the host resolution tab, you will have to choose the type of the underlying command used, `host` or `nslookup`.

You can disable a command by editing the configuration file (by hand) and in the corresponding group, just modify to read `enable = 0`.

The finger, whois and host resolution tabs have a server list. These lists can be modified by changing the corresponding `Servers` key in the config file (by hand in this version).