Bug 144033

Summary:	network manager installed in /usr/bin
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1	Reporter:	Dirk Mueller <dmueller>
Component:	Network	Assignee:	Robert Love <rml>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Beta 1
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Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Description Dirk Mueller 2006-01-19 09:36:31 UTC

Hi, 

network manager apparently is installed in /usr/bin, and that seems to be wrong to me because of two issues: 

a) /usr might be mounted remote, and network manager first has to provide connectivity

b) its a root only daemon, so it doesn't belong into /bin, it belongs into /sbin

Comment 1 Robert Love 2006-01-20 15:19:57 UTC

Both good points.

I agree that NM should be in sbin, not bin.  We can move it.

But moving it to /sbin out of /usr/sbin implies that NM is statically linked and does not need anything else from /usr, which is not true.  DBUS, HAL, et cetera -- plus all of the dynamic libs -- live in /usr.  So NM is not leaving /usr for awhile.

I will move it to /usr/sbin, though, today.

Comment 2 Dirk Mueller 2006-01-23 09:30:06 UTC

ok, discussion turns out that it NetworkManager can stay below /usr/sbin

Comment 3 Robert Love 2006-01-23 16:44:58 UTC

Moved daemons to /usr/sbin and submitted to autobuild.