Re: /etc/profile should include sbin in PATH

To: Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au>
Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: /etc/profile should include sbin in PATH
From: Colin Walters <levanti@verbum.org>
Date: 19 Dec 1999 17:38:58 -0500
Message-id: <[🔎] 871z8iwo71.fsf@meta.verbum.org>
In-reply-to: Craig Sanders's message of "Mon, 20 Dec 1999 09:12:50 +1100"
References: <[🔎] 87yaaqvfdj.fsf@HSE-Montreal-ppp19485.qc.sympatico.ca> <[🔎] 19991219215736.A26960@dnd.utwente.nl> <[🔎] yttvh5uhc00.fsf@gilgamesh.cse.ucsc.edu> <[🔎] 19991219221602.A27245@dnd.utwente.nl> <[🔎] 19991219162531.X13032@lappy.djj.state.va.us> <[🔎] 19991219223351.A27506@dnd.utwente.nl> <[🔎] 19991220091250.I22466@taz.net.au>

Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au> writes:

> the trouble with that "fix" is that it is likely to break local scripts
> which call /sbin/ifconfig and others directly 

So make /sbin a symlink to /bin.  

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