4242 2013-04-10 19:14:59 +0000 ifconfig should be in the user's path 2013-04-11 16:19:25 +0000 1 1 7 Build System, Metadata & Runtime OE-Core core 1.4 x86 Multiple RESOLVED NOTABUG Undecided normal --- 1 dvhart sgw bluelightning meta.mr.watcher meta.watcher richard.purdie --- --- --- oldest_to_newest 31858 0 dvhart 2013-04-10 19:14:59 +0000 Build Configuration: BB_VERSION = "1.17.1" BUILD_SYS = "x86_64-linux" NATIVELSBSTRING = "Ubuntu-11.10" TARGET_SYS = "i586-poky-linux" MACHINE = "atom-pc" DISTRO = "poky" DISTRO_VERSION = "1.3+snapshot-20130410" TUNE_FEATURES = "m32 core2" TARGET_FPU = "" meta-yocto meta-yocto-bsp meta = "master:c31721e6372a52f8dfc516173e18f62266ac461f" meta-kernel-dev = "master:9df95d49188bacbe180bfac67edfaa682d542ed3" Running as xuser the ifconfig binary is not in the users path. It should be. 31895 1 bluelightning 2013-04-11 10:38:37 +0000 This is perhaps debatable since it is in /sbin - different distros handle this differently. CentOS (and therefore presumably RHEL) don't do this for example. 31917 2 richard.purdie 2013-04-11 11:34:33 +0000 Agreed, this is highly debatable and not common place on most desktop systems these days so I don't think this is actually a bug. Its installed into sbin and we shouldn't put sbin in the user's path. Obviously the user can still get to them if needed. 31978 3 dvhart 2013-04-11 15:30:20 +0000 What do you include in "most desktop systems" Richard? It is in my path on Fedora 18, Ubuntu 11.10, and Ubuntu 12.04. I would expect that to cover most Linux desktop systems. I could boot the VMs for OpenSuse and test that.... If you want to ignore it OK, but the logic presented for doing so here doesn't appear to hold up to even moderate scrutiny. 31984 4 richard.purdie 2013-04-11 15:52:59 +0000 I'm not imagining this according to goodle, for example, http://askubuntu.com/questions/134641/why-do-i-have-to-be-root-to-run-the-command-ifconfig however it seems some systems have this and some do not. I'm having trouble figuring out if this was something they did and then change back or what exactly happened. Google suggests Fedora didn't have /sbin in PATH either at some point too. So perhaps most desktop distros tried this, then swicthed back but it was certainly the impression I'd had in my mind. 31985 5 richard.purdie 2013-04-11 15:54:07 +0000 opensuse too: http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/network-internet/440209-ifconfig.html 31995 6 dvhart 2013-04-11 16:19:25 +0000 OK, thanks for the references. Those will be good to have recorded here in the bug in case someone else reports this as an issue.