[PATCH] Use /bin/kill not /usr/bin/kill in systemd scripts

[Michael Adam]

On 2013-02-08 at 19:43 +1100, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-02-08 at 09:35 +0100, Andreas Schneider wrote:
> > On Friday 08 February 2013 11:40:38 Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > > I'm not yet up on all the systemd stuff, but it was suggested to me
> > > that /bin/kill is a more portable command than /usr/bin/kill across both
> > > Red Hat and debian derived distributions.
> > 
> > /usr/bin/kill is used cause of UsrMove.
> > 
> > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TheCaseForTheUsrMerge
> > 
> > This has already been finished in Fedora 17 and will be the case in the 
> > upcoming RHEL version.
> > In openSUSE it is already work in progress since 12.2.
> > 
> > I don't know about the Debian or Debian based distributions. I would like to 
> > keep it the way it is. Does debian alreay have systemd? If they use systemd it 
> > is likely that UsrMerge will be done too.
> 
> That link goes nowhere for me, and so I'm rather confused.  In any case,
> the use case I have is a debian Wheezy based system with systemd.

It is discussed to move contents of /bin to /usr/bin and likewise
for /sbin, /lib, and /lib64, and replacing  /bin by a symlink to
/usr/bin, and so on.

More precisely, quoting from the url above:
"Improved compatibility with other Unixes/Linuxes in behavior:
After the /usr merge all binaries become available in both /bin
and /usr/bin, resp. both /sbin and /usr/sbin. (simply because
/bin becomes a symlink to /usr/bin, resp. /sbin to /usr/sbin)."

This means (for me) that using /bin/kill is the more portable
version and we should use it.

Cheers - Michael

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