On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 10:43:54AM -0500, Chad Miller wrote: > > I like that debian's bash package has different paths for users and the > superuser, but it's caused me to question ideas behind the placement of > some programs in 'sbin' directories. > > For instance, a program joeuser uses often is 'traceroute' (which is in > /usr/sbin). Other (questionable) ones might be /usr/sbin/fbset or > /usr/sbin/lpc . > > Which is wrong? Is it bash' assumption that "only the superuser executes > stuff in sbin," or that "these programs should be in sbin?" Essentially, > by question boils down to "To which packages should I apply a bug > report -- bash or the others?" > > This discussion might belong in debian-policy, depending on your answer.
As policy states, things that pertain to system administration (and traceroute is for troubleshooting networks) is to be in /sbin or /usr/sbin. The difference between /sbin and /usr/sbin is that things that could be needed to rescue a broken system should be in /sbin (things like fsck). Ben -- -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
