Re: traceroute vs. traceroute6
> > 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/.
Uh? sendmail it is an interface for *programs*, yes, end user programs. But
sendmail is rarely executed by end users themselves, even knowledgeable
ones. As such is a bad example for having traceroute in sbin.
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