jeff <moe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Chris Tyler wrote: > > The /sbin and /usr/sbin directories contain many utilities that are > > useful to non-superusers, such as ifconfig, netstat, arp, fuser, lsusb, > > runlevel, dumpe2fs, hwclock, lsof, traceroute, and many others. > > Obviously, most of those utilities can do -more- when run as superuser, > > but that doesn't diminish their value to mortals. [...] > I believe the correct answer is not to add sbin to users' paths, but > to move binaries out of sbin and into bin and symlink them so they > don't break old scripts. By my reading, this is what the FHS implies, > but there is lots of inertia to such a change. > /sbin: "Utilities used for system administration (and other root-only > commands) are stored in /sbin, /usr/sbin, and /usr/local/sbin." > http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#PURPOSE16 > > Note "root-only" Note "system administration"... > /usr/sbin: "This directory contains any non-essential binaries used > exclusively by the system administrator" > http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#PURPOSE25 > > Note "EXCLUSIVELY" Probably an overstatement. > For this reason a few years ago `traceroute` was moved out of sbin. > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18313 That is sensible. But ifconfig(8) is not for luser consumption, and so are lots of others. If you do want them, go /sbin/ifconfig etc. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
