VirtualBox

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:
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 Frank Mehnert, 11 years ago

Summary: VBoxNetAdpCtl looks for ifconfig in the wrong pathVBoxNetAdpCtl looks for ifconfig in the wrong path => Fixed in SVN

Thanks for this report. This will be fixed in the next maintenance release.

comment:2 by Frank Mehnert, 11 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

Fix is part of VBox 4.3.8.

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