On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 07:32:32AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > 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? Uh, no. My remarks above in fact strong imply the opposite conclusion. (However, I don't think traceroute is the strongest candidate for a program that gets run from inside a script.) -- G. Branden Robinson | Communism is just one step on the long Debian GNU/Linux | road from capitalism to capitalism. branden@debian.org | -- Russian saying http://www.debian.org/~branden/ |
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