Bug 144033 - network manager installed in /usr/bin
Summary: network manager installed in /usr/bin
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: SUSE Linux 10.1
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Network (show other bugs)
Version: Beta 1
Hardware: Other Other
: P5 - None : Normal (vote)
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Assignee: Robert Love
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Reported: 2006-01-19 09:36 UTC by Dirk Mueller
Modified: 2006-01-23 16:44 UTC (History)
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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.