Re: inews path question
On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 06:13:08PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
|| On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 05:45:10PM +0200, Vincent Zweije wrote:
|| No, the proper place would not be /usr/sbin, "helper binary" does not
|| match the FHS criteria for /usr/sbin/
|| http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.2/fhs-4.10.html
"... used exclusively by the system admistrator ..."
You're right. I had something less strict in mind. That'll teach me
not to look things up.
|| I am not proposing moving sendmail to /usr/bin/, though, it has been
|| in this location on Debian system for a long time.
... for historic reasons ... :-P
Bah. Let's move sendmail while we're at it and confuse everyone with
our hypercorrectness. :-)
On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 05:17:15PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
|| What program should a user use to post a message from the command-line,
|| then? I've always used inews for this, and I think it's quite reasonable
|| for users to do so.
There used to be Pnews for this, a shell script IIRC.
Then again, Andreas' remarks make sense, so I'll shut up now.
Ciao. Vincent.
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