ifup run-parts not found

[Michael Abbott]

On Fri, 5 Jun 2009, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 2:37 AM, Barney Barumba<barney.b at iname.com> wrote:
> > I'm building a buildroot / busybox ARM system, using:
> >
> > buildroot-2009-05
> > busybox-1.14.1
> >
> > When I try to bring an interface up I'm getting a "run-parts not-found"
> > error, and none of the "/etc/network/if-up.d" scripts are executed.
> >
> > run-parts is present on the system, and appears to run correctly when
> > called directly:
> >
> > # ifup eth0
> > /bin/sh: run-parts: not found
> >
> > # which run-parts
> > /bin/run-parts
> ...
> > If anyone has any ideas as to what may be going on here they would be
> > much appreciated.

Pretty sure I met this problem ages ago.

The PATH is not exported.  God alone knows why not, but it isn't.

Add the line

	export PATH

to /etc/profile and you might be in luck.