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Re: traceroute /usr/bin -> /usr/sbin



ressu@uusikaupunki.fi (Sami Haahtinen) writes:

> On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 02:43:34PM -0400, Brian Russo wrote:
> > heh, woo, didnt realize that initial post had turned into a long flamewar,
> > until i stopped by debianplanet and noticed it was in an article there..
> 
> Did you look at the poll?
> 
> current votes: (total 687)
> bin -> 50.36% (346)
> sbin -> 25.62% (176)

This fact proves that crowd's opinion always lies.

traceroute needs special privileges (ability to open ICMP socket). So
it should be placed in sbin.

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