Mike Gilbert wrote:
> > I would like for us to discuss adding the sbin directories to PATH for
> > all users.
>
> I support this idea. The distinction between bin and sbin is stupid.
I support it too FWIW.
//Peter
On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 4:39 PM, Andrew Savchenko wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Nov 2015 11:10:11 -0600 William Hubbs wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> I would like for us to discuss adding the sbin directories to PATH for
>> all users.
>>
>> The only reason I can think of that we have removed them is cosmetic (it
>> re
On Wed, 25 Nov 2015 11:10:11 -0600 William Hubbs wrote:
> All,
>
> I would like for us to discuss adding the sbin directories to PATH for
> all users.
>
> The only reason I can think of that we have removed them is cosmetic (it
> removes things from tab completion), but I have also heard that hav
On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 09:53:47PM +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> > On Wed, 25 Nov 2015, William Hubbs wrote:
>
> >> > From what I've read, the traditional difference between bin and sbin
> >> > was that sbin means static-bin and everything stored in there was to
> >> > be able to come up with
> On Wed, 25 Nov 2015, William Hubbs wrote:
>> > From what I've read, the traditional difference between bin and sbin
>> > was that sbin means static-bin and everything stored in there was to
>> > be able to come up without libraries.
>>
>> Source/reference for this?
> https://news.ycombina
On 11/25/15 1:58 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 12:10 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> I would like for us to discuss adding the sbin directories to PATH for
>> all users.
> I support this idea. The distinction between bin and sbin is stupid.
>
I'm okay with this. Should
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On 11/25/2015 09:16 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 2:23 PM, Michał Górny
> wrote:
>> On Wed, 25 Nov 2015 11:18:34 -0800 Daniel Campbell
>> wrote:
>>> Maybe I'm missing something, but `df` is in /bin. Do you use
>>> something else
On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 2:23 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Nov 2015 11:18:34 -0800
> Daniel Campbell wrote:
>> Maybe I'm missing something, but `df` is in /bin. Do you use something
>> else to determine free space?
>
> btrfs fi df
In thins case, upstream's build system installs everything
On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 07:51:55PM +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> > On Wed, 25 Nov 2015, William Hubbs wrote:
>> From what I've read, the traditional difference between bin and sbin
>> was that sbin means static-bin and everything stored in there was to
>> be able to come up without libraries.
On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 07:51:55PM +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> > On Wed, 25 Nov 2015, William Hubbs wrote:
>
> > From what I've read, the traditional difference between bin and sbin
> > was that sbin means static-bin and everything stored in there was to
> > be able to come up without libra
On Wed, 25 Nov 2015 11:18:34 -0800
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> On 11/25/2015 10:17 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
> > On Wed, 25 Nov 2015 19:05:13 +0100 Ulrich Mueller
> > wrote:
> >
> >>> On Wed, 25 Nov 2015, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote:
> >
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On 11/25/2015 10:17 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Nov 2015 19:05:13 +0100 Ulrich Mueller
> wrote:
>
>>> On Wed, 25 Nov 2015, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote:
>>
>>> On 11/25/2015 06:10 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
I would like for us to di
On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 11:10:11AM -0600, William Hubbs wrote:
> I would like for us to discuss adding the sbin directories to PATH for
> all users.
Binaries that can run with user privileges could be symbolic linked to
/bin.
--
Nicolas Sebrecht
On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 12:10 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
> All,
>
> I would like for us to discuss adding the sbin directories to PATH for
> all users.
I support this idea. The distinction between bin and sbin is stupid.
> On Wed, 25 Nov 2015, William Hubbs wrote:
> From what I've read, the traditional difference between bin and sbin
> was that sbin means static-bin and everything stored in there was to
> be able to come up without libraries.
Source/reference for this?
> As mgorny was talking about earlier,
On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 07:31:14PM +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> > On Wed, 25 Nov 2015, William Hubbs wrote:
>
> > This behaviour is not really that traddditional. most *nix's I've
> > seen have the sbin directories in the path for all users.
>
> Traditional Unices didn't have /sbin at all.
> On Wed, 25 Nov 2015, William Hubbs wrote:
> This behaviour is not really that traddditional. most *nix's I've
> seen have the sbin directories in the path for all users.
Traditional Unices didn't have /sbin at all. Instead, they used /etc
for such binaries. :)
(Some remnants of this can s
On Wed, 25 Nov 2015 19:05:13 +0100
Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> > On Wed, 25 Nov 2015, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote:
>
> > On 11/25/2015 06:10 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
> >> I would like for us to discuss adding the sbin directories to PATH
> >> for all users.
>
> > This sounds strange to me
On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 06:36:03PM +0100, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote:
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> On 11/25/2015 06:10 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > I would like for us to discuss adding the sbin directories to PATH
> > for all users.
> >
>
> This sounds
> On Wed, 25 Nov 2015, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote:
> On 11/25/2015 06:10 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
>> I would like for us to discuss adding the sbin directories to PATH
>> for all users.
> This sounds strange to me, if it should be executable by all users
> it likely shouldn't be in sbin in t
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On 11/25/2015 06:10 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
> All,
>
> I would like for us to discuss adding the sbin directories to PATH
> for all users.
>
This sounds strange to me, if it should be executable by all users it
likely shouldn't be in sbin in the
On 11/25/2015 12:10 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
> All,
>
> I would like for us to discuss adding the sbin directories to PATH for
> all users.
>
>
The only thing that procps installs in /sbin is sysctl. Why? It works
when run as a normal user, as long as you don't try to change something
sacred. (
All,
I would like for us to discuss adding the sbin directories to PATH for
all users.
The only reason I can think of that we have removed them is cosmetic (it
removes things from tab completion), but I have also heard that having
those things in tab completion would be a good thing.
Another rea
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