Re: traceroute vs. traceroute6
Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ualberta.ca> writes:
> On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, [iso-8859-1] Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote:
>
> > No, because sendmail isn't meant to be called by end users. `mail' is the
^^^^^^^^^
> > traditional interface to sendmail, and it's in /usr/bin. `traceroute' is a
>
> I don't know of any serious mail program that uses 'mail' to inject new
> messages, even pine doesn't do that!
>
> It seems quite plain to me that there can be no question that sendmail is
> actually used by end user program (non-admin) to place new messages into
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> the outbound mail spool, and as such should really be in /usr/bin/.
Please do not confuse me with {mutt,gnus,pine,elm}. There is a large
difference between end users and end user programs. I personally have
never used sendmail directly to send mail, though I have used mail
quite a bit to do so. Regardless of this, following FHS places the
sendmail binary in /usr/sbin, as it is (1) a deamon; (2) a system
administration tool; (3) a program normally called only by other
programs, which would technically put it /usr/lib. Sigh.
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