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Bug#2176: timezone problem reassigned from bug report 1789



Package: Timezone

I wrote:
   >(0) zdump is in /usr/sbin -- though you don't need to be root to
   >find it useful.

Fernando Alegre replied:
   I don't consider this a bug. Many utilities included mainly for
   sysadmins are useful to regular users, but that doesn't prevent
   them to be in /usr/sbin.

I still consider this a bug.  Here's a quote from fsstnd-1.2, section
3.10:
   Deciding what things go in sbin directories is simple: If a user will
   need to run it, then it should go somewhere else.  If it will only be
   run by system administrators or as root from system management scripts,
   then it should go in /sbin (or in /usr/sbin or /usr/local/sbin if the
   item is not vital to system operation).

If there are other utilities that users will need to run in /usr/sbin
these are also bugs.  I'm re-opening this report.

--
Raul


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