Bug 1045445

Summary: /usr/sbin/ifconfig is now /usr/bin/ifconfig
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Harald Reindl <h.reindl>
Component: net-toolsAssignee: Jiri Popelka <jpopelka>
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Fixed In Version: net-tools-2.0-0.19.20131119git.fc21 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2013-12-20 14:25:05 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Harald Reindl 2013-12-20 12:33:41 UTC 
is it *really* worth to change this?

are you aware that this breaks a lot of endusers scripts working with full qualified paths for security reasons or because systemd-units need full qualified paths?

hence this will break at least two services on 25 machines i maintain and additionally 5 openvpn-instances on the company gateway as well as the openvpn-services on the remote-end connecting their networks to them

it also makes it harder share scripts with the upcoming RHEL7
[root@localhost:~]$ which ifconfig
/usr/sbin/ifconfig
[root@localhost:~]$ cat /etc/redhat-release 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Everything release 7.0 Beta (Maipo)

this is a change for the sake of change solving a non-exting problem
yes, i can create a symlink before reboot after the yum-dist-upgrade on each machine, then search on the whole system which files needs to be modified and remove the symlink but it is ridiculous forcing that for no gain
Comment 1 Jiri Popelka 2013-12-20 14:25:05 UTC 
That was actually upstream change
https://sourceforge.net/p/net-tools/mailman/message/28485418/

I was moving them back to sbin for couple releases, but finally decided to sync with upstream when I was doing the /usr move recently.

But you're right. I again move them back to /usr/sbin/ in net-tools-2.0-0.19.20131119git.fc21
Comment 2 Harald Reindl 2013-12-20 14:30:56 UTC 
thank you!