On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 02:05:58PM -0500, Bryan Andersen wrote: > Traceroute is a diagnostic command. As such it isn't general use. This distinction between sbin and bin is nowhere defined as having anything to do with "general use". > When a user or administrator is using it it is because of unusual > conditions. My opinion is to leave it in /usr/sbin. Let them type > a few extra characters, or add the sbin directories to their path. > > The same can be said of ping, but ping existed before the bin/sbin > split. As such there is legacy code that expects it to be there. Traceroute's been around a long, long time as well. > If one really wants it in the general users path, then run a symbolic > link back to the original from the appropriate bin directory. This is a lousy fix. > | Buzzwords are like annoying little flies that deserve to be swatted. | > | -Bryan Andersen | "He who quotes himself in his own .signature files likely has no esteem for the views of anyone else, past, present, or future." -me -- G. Branden Robinson | The errors of great men are venerable Debian GNU/Linux | because they are more fruitful than the branden@debian.org | truths of little men. http://www.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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