On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 11:52:37AM -0500, Jacob Kuntz wrote: > > 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). > > at the risk of reigniting a flame war, how is traceroute in a different > catagory that ping?
I don't think it is, but historically it has been in /usr/sbin and Herbert Xu won't move it to a /bin-type directory because it might break existing setups. Personally, I'm not certain it's a valid reason, since we move much larger chunks of stuff to comply with the filesystem standards, and I don't see anyone complaining about that... on the contrary, in fact, people file bugs if stuff isn't in a FSSTND/FHS compliant location. Then again, a little conservativisim over moving stuff won't hurt us :) -- enJoy -*/\*- don't even try to pronounce my first name
