>> Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> A normal user who runs ifconfig, route or mkfs? That's about as
> likely as the pope suddenly switching to budaism.
Since the first two's default behaviour is to *query*, and since no
special privileges are needed in order to get a reply back,
> A normal user who runs ifconfig, route or mkfs? That's about as likely as
> the pope suddenly switching to budaism.
Is the pope running the Hurd?
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On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 02:15:40PM -0300, Cesar Eduardo Barros wrote:
> This proposal was not about traceroute. It was about everything else
Oh yes, very tricky. This subterfuge had us all fooled. Bah!
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Previously Cesar Eduardo Barros wrote:
> This proposal was not about traceroute. It was about everything else
> (ifconfig,
> route, mke2fs, e2fsck, etc -- everything a normal user runs and yet are at
> sbin). The traceroute thing was just a footnote.
A normal user who runs ifconfig, route or mkfs
On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 02:52:37PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 10:38:49PM -0300, Cesar Eduardo Barros wrote:
> > I have only one thing to add to that list: traceroute should be moved,
> > _not_ to
> > /usr/bin as lots of people claim, but to /bin . It's as necessary and
On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 10:38:49PM -0300, Cesar Eduardo Barros wrote:
> I have only one thing to add to that list: traceroute should be moved, _not_
> to
> /usr/bin as lots of people claim, but to /bin . It's as necessary and useful
> as
> ping to diagnose networking trouble, and /usr might be mo
On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 10:38:49PM -0300, Cesar Eduardo Barros wrote:
> I have only one thing to add to that list: traceroute should be moved, _not_
> to
> /usr/bin as lots of people claim, but to /bin . It's as necessary and useful
> as
> ping to diagnose networking trouble, and /usr might be mo
On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 10:38:49PM -0300, Cesar Eduardo Barros uttered:
> There are a number of binaries which should go into /bin instead of /sbin or
> /usr/sbin -- the full argument is at
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2001/debian-devel-200106/msg00878.html
>
ARGHHH!
We've been through th
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.5.6.0
Severity: wishlist
Some time ago (ok, a lot of time ago), lots of things were changed in the
filesystem (I can particulary recall the gradual phasing-out and elimination of
/usr/tmp and /var/adm). Now I think it's time to go on and move some more
things.
Th
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