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Re: Intent To Split: netbase



Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 05:55:38PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
>
>> 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.

So you do agree with me that it is better to leave traceroute in /usr/sbin?
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