Re: /etc/profile should include sbin in PATH

[Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>]

Brian May wrote:
>      This program is intended for use in network testing, measurement and man-
>      agement.  It should be used primarily for manual fault isolation.  Be-
>      cause of the load it could impose on the network, it is unwise to use
>      traceroute during normal operations or from automated scripts.

I wonder how long ago that paragraph was written.. 10 or 15 years?
Traceroute places no real load on today's networks; pulling up slashdot is
worse, mtr is far worse (and has the same purpose, and oddly resides in
/usr/bin/), and let's not even talk about a networked game of quake, or real
player, etc, etc.

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