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



On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 09:48:27AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 09:19:19AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > Then you mustn't have been listening to me.  The sbin rule as it stands
> > will force us to move sendmail as well.  
> 
> You haven't explained why. You said that normally users run it, but
> they don't run it directly -- their MUA calls it for them.

many users run /usr/sbin/sendmail directly. it's one of the best and
most flexible tools available for sending mail from the command line.

it's also very commonly used in user scripts, including form-to-mail CGI
scripts.

if the argument for moving traceroute is valid then it is equally valid
for moving sendmail...perhaps more so. tracerouting is, after all, a
network diagnostics activity even when run by a normal user...whereas
sending mail is firmly in the realm of what users normally do on a
system.


craig

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craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au>

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