moving /bin/ip to /sbin/ip?

Natanael Copa natanael.copa at gmail.com
Tue Sep 11 15:27:24 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 15:51 +0200, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 09:11 -0400, Paul Fox wrote:
> [...]
> > sorry.  when i said "$PATH isn't always the answer", i meant,
> > "sometimes just using $PATH won't solve your problem".  if you
> > don't control the app, and it contains a hard-coded path, then
> > $PATH won't help.
> 
> No, then you put a (so-called compatibility) sym-link in place (and
> not move a binary just because of one broken app which hardcodes paths
> and doesn't make it configurable).

Thats how i solved it in this specific case.

Thanks for all comments.

-nc

> 
> 	Bernd




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