I notice it's fixed now, but this needed to be added anyway, since the same counts for the dmidecode needed in the future, which is also (by default) installed in /usr/sbin instead /usr/local/sbin. Just a reminder in case problems related to lmsensors or dmidecode show up in the future, Ivo ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jean Delvare" <khali at linux-fr.org> To: "LM Sensors" <lm-sensors at lm-sensors.org> Cc: "Vince Spinelli" <Vince at SpinelliCreations.com> Sent: Wednesday 4 April 2007 21:34 Subject: Re: sensors-detect path issue under fc5 / 6 -- fix included. > On Sun, 4 Mar 2007 11:33:41 +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: >> On Sun, 4 Mar 2007 03:04:42 -0500 (EST), Vince Spinelli wrote: >> > It's a simple one, but it's worth noting. >> > >> > I'm unawares of other distributions, but under Fedora Core 5 and 6, the >> > i2cdetect command is located in the /usr/sbin directory, not /sbin/ nor >> > /usr/local/sbin. >> >> That's the case of pretty much all distributions shipping lm-sensors, >> as /usr/local is meant for things added on top of the original >> distribution. >> >> > As a result, an error message is encountered when running >> > sensors-detect.sh as either root, sudo root, or a normal user. >> >> There's no such thing as "sensors-detect.sh" in our source package. >> sensors-detect is a perl script. >> >> If your root user doesn't have /usr/sbin in its $PATH, then your setup >> is seriously broken, I doubt sensors-detect will be the only failing >> tool. >> >> sensors-detect can no longer be run as non-root, so this case doesn't >> matter. >> >> The su/sudo case is more problematic though, I can imagine a standard >> user gaining root permissions without getting the $PATH usually >> associated with the root user. >> >> > The fix is as follows... inside of the sensors-detect.sh script, >> > there's a >> > segment to add directories to path. > > I've made a functionally equivalent change to sensors-detect, committed > to our SVN repository. Feel free to give it a try. Hopefully it will > make the packagers happier. > > -- > Jean Delvare > > _______________________________________________ > lm-sensors mailing list > lm-sensors at lm-sensors.org > http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors
