WARNING: lsof not found, not checking for files in use about unburden-home-dir HOT 9 CLOSED

Sounds like a bug in Fedora to me. lsof is not a sysadmin-only program and hence should not reside in sbin IMHO. (And sbin is usually not in a normal user's path.)

I'll think how I can solve that issue in unburden-home-dir.

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Can you test if that commit fixes it for you?

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I wholeheartedly agree that lsof should not be in sbin and I intend to file a bug on redhat's bugzila.
But even if they make the change, I doubt that it will be backported. So fix will land in Fedora 23 eventually, most probably in 24 :(
And I guess your fix is OK as I did the same locally, just in more crude way (I just set $which_lsof=/usr/sbin/lsof without any checks)

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Actually I pushed a second patch which makes sure that the path in $which_lsof is used instead of just calling lsof.

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And yes, I know that such changes won't be backported. That's why I implemented a workaround.

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so that means I just "fixed" the warning locally, not the issue ... very smart move on my side :/

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Well, I did the same in my first commit. Which is why there had to be a follow-up commit. :-)

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Menawhile on #fedora-devel..

[08:39:39] anyone know why lsof is installed to /usr/sbin by default and not /usr/bin?
[08:41:05] csmart: because lsof is marked as one of the "system manager binaries", which all (should) go into sbin
[08:41:57] puiterwijk: ok, but it's also useful for regular users, it's not a priviledged program
[08:42:06] just put sbin in your path
[08:42:27] but I don't think that's the right thing to do for a non-priv user
[08:42:41] that's why it's not in the path by default
[08:42:44] it could be moved, but each time this kind of stuff get discussed, it get bikeshed quite fast
[08:43:01] misc: ahh right, I wondered if there was something historic
[08:43:06] to me lsof is a useful non-admin tool
[08:43:12] just like "less"
[08:43:18] :-)
[08:43:23] (and it seems I do have sbin in my path, not sure if that was me who changed that, or the os)
[08:44:18] sbin is in the default path anymore I thought...
[08:44:38] misc: yeah maybe it is there by default now for users, but not for xinit
[08:44:40] sbin is i nthe default path
[08:45:07] anyway, I just wondered why lsof was in sbin, thanks

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Well I filled a bug in redhat's bugzilla. Not that I have any hopes ...

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