/sbin/ipvsadm doesn't work when $PATH doesn't contain /sbin

[Ruben Laban]

Binary package hint: ipvsadm

As /sbin/ipvsadm is a wrapper script for 2 versions of ipvsadm and isn't using full paths to those executables, running /sbin/ipvsadm when /sbin is not part of $PATH, the script will fail. (Root) Cronjobs by default don't appear to have /sbin in their $PATH, so any cronjobs running /sbin/ipvsadm will fail, unless $PATH is overridden.

Output from a script using bash -x using /sbin/ipvsadm :

+ /sbin/ipvsadm -Lnf 4
exec: 15: ipvsadm-1.24: not found

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions:
1. Is this reproducible?
2. If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug? Be as detailed as possible.
This will help us to find and resolve the problem.

[Ruben Laban (r-laban)]

On Thursday 15 October 2009 at 19:06 (CET), Chuck Short wrote:
> 1. Is this reproducible?

Yes.

> 2. If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug? Be as
> detailed as possible. This will help us to find and resolve the problem.

As described in the bugreport itself:

$ sudo crontab -l
# m h dom mon dow command
4 20 * * * /sbin/ipvsadm
4 20 * * * ipvsadm

This results in two error mails from cron.
The first mentions:
exec: 15: ipvsadm-1.24: not found

The second mentions:
/bin/sh: ipvsadm: not found

--
Ruben

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

Thanks for the fast response this will probably be fixed in karmic+1.

Regards
chuck

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

This should be fixed for Lucid now.

Regards
chuck