Opened 11 years ago
Closed 11 years ago
#12713 closed defect (fixed)
VBoxNetAdpCtl looks for ifconfig in the wrong path => Fixed in SVN
Reported by: | efferre | Owned by: | |
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Component: | network | Version: | VirtualBox 4.3.6 |
Keywords: | Cc: | ||
Guest type: | all | Host type: | Linux |
Description
VBoxNetAdpCtl uses an hardcoded path for ifconfig, currently /sbin/ifconfig, both in the opensource and binary versions.
/sbin/ifconfig was the standard location until net-tools changed the default location to /bin/ifconfig, this happened a lot of time ago, see commit
http://sourceforge.net/p/net-tools/code/ci/36b541c9f3efe55c5871674ee926be8b20339497/
I'd strongly suggest to support both paths (at runtime and not configure time) to be compatible with old and new versions of net-tools.
Change History (2)
comment:1 by , 11 years ago
Summary: | VBoxNetAdpCtl looks for ifconfig in the wrong path → VBoxNetAdpCtl looks for ifconfig in the wrong path => Fixed in SVN |
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Thanks for this report. This will be fixed in the next maintenance release.