On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Anand Kumria wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Scott Ellis wrote: > > > On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Anand Kumria wrote: > > > > No, moving normal files is completly transparent. Although I have a > > general objection to moving mtr into /usr/sbin, I use network diagnostic > > programs all the time on my local machine and moving them to sbin just > > makes them more annoying to get at without adding extra security. > > I know, so do I. However I thought it best to place mtr (a traceroute > variant) in the same location as the real traceroute (/usr/sbin), on the > presumption that if you are already using these tools you will likely have > /usr/sbin in your path. Do you think this is something I should raise on > debian-devel/debian-policy? Perhaps /usr/sbin should be in the default > path?
Actually, I used traceroute a lot, but I got around the problem by symlinking it into /usr/local/bin. /usr/sbin should not be in default paths. I expect that a discussion on why traceroute is getting hidden may be appropriate however. -- Scott K. Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.gate.net/~storm/
