On Sat, Sep 23, 2000 at 05:57:41PM +0200, Leen Besselink wrote: > Hello, > > Just a quick question, but why is traceroute stationed in a sbin directory > ? As normal user I can use it too, so why ? or is this just because of > some arcane old tradition ? And some old scripts depend on it ? > > I think it's so strange. search the debian-devel list archives for endless and repeating flamewars over the issue. basically sbin is for sysadmin binaries (per FHS) and the traceroute maintainer stubbornly believes this is a sysadmin tool not to be commonly used by ordinary users. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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