David Mansfield wrote: > On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 19:49 -0400, Alan Cox wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 05:08:15PM -0500, Ian Weller wrote: >>> nonessential command binaries, /sbin and /usr/sbin are for system >>> binaries. I personally am a fan of the organization, but +1 to >>> the adding /sbin:/usr/sbin to everyone's path. >> If so it has to go at the end - several tools install /sbin and non /sbin >> versions of the same name. >> > > Probably it should be the same as what root gets, or what you get with > 'su -' which is /sbin ahead of /bin and /usr/sbin ahead of /usr/bin. > Otherwise won't it still be confusing if 'su' and 'su -' work > differently? I'm not sure. There is for an against this argument. I tend to side with Alan and for users put /sbin/ at the end. One of the main "advantages" of having separate binary dirs in the first place, is the possibility of overriding names based on $PATH In practice I don't think this will matter as there doesn't seem to be significant clashes currently. I did a quick scan with FSlint¹ and on ubuntu 7.10 there are no name clashes. On Fedora 8 there were no clashes between user and root paths either. I did notice the oddity that /sbin/ symlinks the the lvm tools (lvm, pvscan, vgscan, vgchange) to the statically linked binary, whereas /usr/sbin/ links to the normal binary. ¹ http://www.pixelbeat.org/fslint/ -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
