On 11/22/2013 5:18 PM, Jan Pokorný wrote: > On 21/11/13 16:48 +0100, Fabio M. Di Nitto wrote: >> On 11/21/2013 4:16 PM, Ondrej Mular wrote: >>> +PATHS = ["/usr/local/bull/NSMasterHW/bin/ipmitool", >>> + "/usr/bin/ipmitool", >>> + "/usr/sbin/ipmitool", >>> + "/bin/ipmitool", >>> + "/sbin/ipmitool", >>> + "/usr/local/bin/ipmitool", >>> + "/usr/local/sbin/ipmitool"] >> >> this hard-cording it bad. >> >> Always use OS define PATH and if really necessary allow user to override >> with an option (for example: --pathtoipmitool=/usr/local....) > > see, e.g., > http://git.engineering.redhat.com/users/jpokorny/clufter/tree/utils.py?id=d37db7470f4e44598af0b91d02221182178677ff#n22 > that mimics "which" standard utility > > Hope this helps >
I´d like to understand why we need a search path in the first place tho and we can´t just rely on shell hitting the right tool :) Fabio
