Re: inews path question

[Roger Leigh <roger@whinlatter.uklinux.net>]

Vincent Zweije <zweije@xs4all.nl> writes:

>>From the (admittedly years old) impression I got from inn, inews should be
> seen as the news injector (inject-news), corresponding to what sendmail
> is for mail, meant as a backend to other programs that allow you to
> post messages, but not supposed to be called directly by the end user.
> As such, the proper place would be /usr/sbin, or at least, it wouldn't
> need to go in /usr/bin.

If it's not meant to be invoked directly by a user, it should be put
in /usr/libexec/news/inews.  It's located under /usr/libexec on the
BSDs.

Hopefully, Debian Policy (and FHS) will allow the use of libexec some
day...


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