Bug 444034 - /sbin/ifcfg assumes ip, arping and rdisc are in $PATH
Summary: /sbin/ifcfg assumes ip, arping and rdisc are in $PATH
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Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: iproute
Version: 9
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Marcela Mašláňová
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-04-24 17:31 UTC by Ville Skyttä
Modified: 2008-12-02 17:54 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2008-12-02 13:47:30 UTC
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Call ip, arping, and rdisc with full paths (3.26 KB, patch)
2008-04-24 17:31 UTC, Ville Skyttä
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Description Ville Skyttä 2008-04-24 17:31:52 UTC
/sbin/ifcfg assumes that ip, arping, and rdisc are in $PATH which is not the
case eg. after "sudo -s" from a non-root user.  Patch attached.

Comment 1 Ville Skyttä 2008-04-24 17:31:52 UTC
Created attachment 303665 [details]
Call ip, arping, and rdisc with full paths

Comment 2 Marcela Mašláňová 2008-04-25 10:08:42 UTC
I sent your patch to upstream, let's wait for acceptance.

Comment 3 Marcela Mašláňová 2008-04-25 10:30:38 UTC
Your patch assumes 'ip' was installed in /sbin. It isn't always true, so it's
wontfix.

Comment 4 Ville Skyttä 2008-04-25 18:45:25 UTC
I am not surprised at all that it's not acceptable upstream, otherwise I would
have sent it there myself.

The Fedora package *does* install the binaries explicitly to /sbin in the
specfile and thus remains broken as described, and the posted patch fixes it,
reopening.

Comment 5 Ville Skyttä 2008-04-25 18:50:06 UTC
Another fix obviously would be to symlink the mentioned binaries eg. to /bin.

Comment 6 Marcela Mašláňová 2008-05-09 09:00:39 UTC
I'd like to wait until decision about path (/sbin) will be made. I prefer to fix
it in all branches same way.

Comment 7 Bug Zapper 2008-05-14 10:06:00 UTC
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA.
More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

Comment 8 Marcela Mašláňová 2008-12-02 13:47:30 UTC
I suppose adding /sbin into paths in F-10 solved your problem.

Comment 9 Ville Skyttä 2008-12-02 17:54:34 UTC
Not at all, I'm still on F-9.  Besides, adding /sbin dirs to the default paths creates so severe usability problems with shell completion for normal users that chances are that I won't be "upgrading" to F-10 at all.  Chances are also that /sbin paths will be removed from defaults again in F-11, there's a "RealSbinSanity" feature cooking... so it might be that this issue needs to be revisited again soon.


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