Re: traceroute /usr/bin -> /usr/sbin
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 02:57:24PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote:
> joost@topaz.mdcc.cx (Joost Kooij) writes:
>
> > Meanwhile, every serious unix has always had /usr/sbin/traceroute.
>
> Every serious Unix hasn't had /usr/sbin forever, so they couldn't have
> had traceroute there forever.
Every[1] serious unix hasn't had traceroute forever either, probably.
Cheers,
Joost
[1] apart from openbsd who had had it in their cvs for years before
someone on debian-devel woke up and noticed all the security madness of
users having access to it. And then some proposed to hide it from the
users, in /usr/sbin, and yet others spoke out that such was not to design
and that instead, and in the name of Democratic Software and The Rights
Of Users Who Do Not Understand $PATH, Policy should be applied blindly.
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