Re: Intent To Split: netbase
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 12:31:47 -0500 (+0000), Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 07:22:26PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > Well, the FHS is contradicting itself here. On one hand, it says that
> > ifconfig is required to be in /sbin, on the other, according to this
> > paragraph, since a user could ocassionally wish to run ifconfig to list
> > the interfaces, it has to be in /bin. Someone should bring this up on
> > the FHS list.
>
> I agree with that much.
[snip]
What so wrong with "user tools in */bin and sysadmin tools in */sbin".
As an advanced user, I always put /sbin and /usr/sbin in my PATH, whatever
the unix I'm on.
People who know about ifconfig should know enough to add /sbin and /usr/sbin
to their PATH IMO.
Adrian
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