Re: traceroute in /usr/bin, not /usr/sbin
On 17 Jun 2001 at 10:12 (+1000), Craig Sanders wrote:
| 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.
You know, I have never _once_ seen anyone type '$ sendmail' to send
email. I often see '$ mail' used, and even use it myself for
nasty late-night emails to my cohorts. 'mail' lives in /usr/bin
as its common use would dictate. Granted, I do use 'sendmail' directly
to when debugging rulesets or to check delivery of email, but both of
those things I do feel like I'm doing in an administrative capacity.
| it's also very commonly used in user scripts, including form-to-mail CGI
| scripts.
wrongly so, as well. Mail::Sendmail is much safer to use from perl
scripts.
damnit, I knew I shoulda avoided this thread,
Brent
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