On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 2:31 PM, Reindl Harald <h.rei...@thelounge.net> wrote: > > Am 16.08.2015 um 18:57 schrieb Nico Kadel-Garcia: >> >> It's a basic violation of the ordinary segregation between "/bin" as >> ordinary user tools" and "/sbin" as sysadmin tools to start mixing >> them, and much more confusing to have the same program name in both. >> And it's frankly easy to avoid. "mock", for example, should rename >> "/.sbin/mock" to something else to avoid command line confusion > > > nonsense > > ./sbin/ is nowehre in the FHS > ./sbin/ is not below/usr > ./sbin is not protected ReadOnlyDirectories=/usr > > /usr/lib/appname and /usr/libexec exists
/sbin isn't a separate filesystem, it is a subdirectory of "/", and it's explicitly mentioned at http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.2/fhs-3.14.html as requiring copies or symlinks to certain specific, long-stable program names. Let me quote that document: > 3.14.1 Purpose > > Utilities used for system administration (and other root-only commands) are > stored in /sbin, /usr/sbin, and /usr/local/sbin. /sbin contains binaries > essential for booting, restoring, recovering, and/or repairing the system in > addition to the binaries in /bin.[footnote 15] -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
