On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 05:55:38PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 09:54:28AM -0400, Chad Miller wrote: > >> Hear, hear! It would be a flag day for a few poorly written programs > >> out there, but a reorg is worth it. > > > Then they're VERY poorly written. The proper way (in posix sh) to invoke a > > command that should be in the path (but look before you leap) is this: > > But I thought one of the main complaints was that /usr/sbin wasn't in the > PATH. Generally, maintainer scripts, and programs meant to be run by root, run as root. If a program expects to use some tool that only root would use, it should expect to be running as root. -- G. Branden Robinson | America is at that awkward stage. It's Debian GNU/Linux | too late to work within the system, but branden@debian.org | too early to shoot the bastards. http://www.debian.org/~branden/ | --Claire Wolfe
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