Am Sun, 15 Aug 2010 06:19:24 -0700 schrieb mike rosset <schizoid29@xxxxxxxxx>: > I agree with this /usr/local/ is a pretty common location to install > system wide software and imo /usr/local/bin /usr/local/sbin should be > included in the default path. FHS covers this and GNU conf also > defaults to this. > > However in Judd's case I would think ~/bin would be better suited for > user scripts unless he needs to use them system wide ie. as another > user. since its much easier to edit save the files and does not > require root privileges to modify You're not quite right. Both /usr and /usr/local are system wide, but /usr is for packages which are installed by a package manager and /usr/local is for self written user scripts. It's just that user scripts can't be overwritten by a package. Heiko
