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Beowulf upgrade drops "sbin" directories from root $PATH

Package: util-linux; Maintainer for util-linux is Devuan Developers <devuan-dev@lists.dyne.org>; Source for util-linux is src:util-linux.

Reported by: eidolon.alpha@protonmail.com

Date: Sun, 10 May 2020 17:18:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk>

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Control: reassign -1 util-linux

Eidolon,

Thanks for this.

On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 05:02:56PM +0000, eidolon.alpha@protonmail.com wrote:
>    Upon reboot, I noticed that the "service" command could not be found.
>    Nor could ifconfig. I could, however, run the command with the full
>    path (ie, /sbin/ifconfig).
> 
>    Workaround
> 
>    echoing $PATH proved that there were no sbin directories (/sbin,
>    /usr/sbin, /usr/local/sbin). I was able to work around this with a
>    simple export PATH=$PATH:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin for my root
>    account.

You don't say how you are using root. I suspect with su(1)?

If so, this behaviour change is known and well documented. See

 - https://beta.devuan.org/os/documentation/install-guides/beowulf/Release_notes_beowulf_3.0.0.txt
 - /usr/share/doc/util-linux/NEWS.Debian.gz

Mark

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