moving /bin/ip to /sbin/ip?

[Paul Fox]

 > On Tuesday 11 September 2007 05:01, Paul Fox wrote:
 > >  > On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 10:40:11PM +0200, Natanael Copa wrote:
 > >  > > It would be a lot easier for me to have the ip application in the same
 > >  > > place as the original iproute2. In fact it makes things alot more easy
 > >  > > to have the busybox applications in the same place as the original apps.
 > >  > > (not first time i meet this kind of problems)
 > >  > 
 > >  > $PATH?
 > > 
 > > no, his problem is that other apps refer to ip via its full path.
 > > $PATH isn't always the answer.
 > 
 > Which is kind of negates the reason why we have PATH in the first place.
 > 
 > "Other apps" should be fixed to not use full paths.

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.

paul
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