Re: of bash and ...sbin/
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 10:43:54AM -0500, Chad Miller wrote:
>
> I like that debian's bash package has different paths for users and the
> superuser, but it's caused me to question ideas behind the placement of
> some programs in 'sbin' directories.
>
> For instance, a program joeuser uses often is 'traceroute' (which is in
> /usr/sbin). Other (questionable) ones might be /usr/sbin/fbset or
> /usr/sbin/lpc .
>
> Which is wrong? Is it bash' assumption that "only the superuser executes
> stuff in sbin," or that "these programs should be in sbin?" Essentially,
> by question boils down to "To which packages should I apply a bug
> report -- bash or the others?"
>
> This discussion might belong in debian-policy, depending on your answer.
As policy states, things that pertain to system administration (and
traceroute is for troubleshooting networks) is to be in /sbin or
/usr/sbin. The difference between /sbin and /usr/sbin is that things that
could be needed to rescue a broken system should be in /sbin (things like
fsck).
Ben
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