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

[Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>]

herbert@gondor.apana.org.au (Herbert Xu) writes:

> That means, if a command can be used by a user at all,
> then it must go into /bin,/usr/bin.  I am just pointing out that it's
> a rule which nobody actually follows.

I find life much less frustrating if I just add /sbin and /usr/sbin to the 
default PATH on every system I administer.  Making that the default was
previously discussed here, with the concensus being that we should fix the
location of executables instead of changing the default path.  A noble goal,
but one which has seen little or no action since.

My way of thinking about this is that if the permissions allow execution by 
anyone other than root, then either it doesn't belong in an sbin directory, 
or the sbin directories should be in the PATH.  Since I can fix the latter 
locally much more easily than the former...

Bdale