> -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-devel-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:fedora-devel-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Behdad > Esfahbod > Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 4:13 PM > To: Development discussions related to Fedora > Subject: Re: Adding /sbin and /usr/sbin to everyone's path in F10 > > > On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 14:59 -0500, Chris Adams wrote: > > Once upon a time, Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx> said: > > > And I think we could solve 99.9% of the annoyance by > addressing ifconfig, > > > fdisk, lsmod, route, and the other small handful of > programs mentioned in > > > this thread. Like I said, it worked for traceroute back > in 2003. :) > > > > Again, here's my personal list-at-a-glance of things to look at: > > > > bind: > > /usr/sbin/rndc > > > > chkconfig: > > /sbin/chkconfig > > > > freeipmi: > > /usr/sbin/ipmiconsole > > /usr/sbin/ipmipower > > > > hardlink: > > /usr/sbin/hardlink > > > > iproute: > > /sbin/ip > > > > module-init-tools: > > /sbin/lsmod > > /sbin/modinfo > > > > net-tools: > > /sbin/arp > > /sbin/ifconfig > > /sbin/route > > > > ntp: > > /usr/sbin/ntpq > > > > pciutils: > > /sbin/lspci > > > > usbutils: > > /sbin/lsusb > > > > wireless-tools: > > /sbin/iwconfig > > /sbin/iwlist > > > > That's 16 commands from 11 packages. Yes, there are a few > more, but not > > all that many. How hard would is be to just fix these > (either symlink > > or just move to /bin or /usr/bin as appropriate)? > > How could you leave /sbin/pidof out? Oh why, really, why is pidof > in /sbin in the first place? sigh... You sure you want to do that too? :) [root@rawfedora ~]# ls -la /sbin/pidof lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 2008-03-26 13:52 /sbin/pidof -> killall5 Nevermind the historical reasons psmisc/sysvinit-tools pidof has the symlink to killall5 or whatever Debian has it even worse ---> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2008-04-04 16:32 /bin/pidof -> ../sbin/killall5 Fun :-) > > -- > behdad > http://behdad.org/ > > "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little > Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." > -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 > > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list > -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
