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Re: traceroute in /usr/bin, not /usr/sbin



On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 07:20:00PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> wrote:
> > traceroute is not used 'exclusively by the system administrator', nor
> > is it needed for bootup, so it must go in /usr/bin.  Pretty simple.
> 
> To adhere to that, almost everything in /sbin,/usr/sbin will have to be
> moved out: ifconfig, sendmail, route, etc.

but not everything: init, reboot, fsck, etc.  there's plenty of
stuff to justify /sbin even if this criterium is applied.

- dave



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