Open a bug to put sbin *after* bin? I have had sbin in my path for years, and I do not have those issues, and I always set bin dirs before the sbin dirs. don On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 10:24:58PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote to To Fedora Development List: > Grumble grumble. > I'm finding having sbin in my user path really annoying. I go to type > 'killall firefox' using tab completion, and killall5 (which says in its man > page "Its primary (only) use is in the rc scripts"!) is in the way. I go to > run firefox again, and I'm impeded by firstboot. Etc., etc., etc. > This change is not for the better, and doesn't fit the stated goal of "sbin > sanity". > The sudo change was good, and helped out. Moving useful binaries out of sbin > and into bin would have been a good path. Throwing everything into one pot > is a regression. > Now, I hear you saying already: "stop whining, Matthew. Just put it the way > you want in your dotfiles". Well, okay, I have. But I don't want to just set > a static path since I want /etc/profile.d to still work. So I've got to do > an active munging sed script. Ugh. > We've just made the command line a lot less user friendly for common use in > exchange for an ugly fix to a small inconvenience. *Any* chance of putting > this back and working at fixing the problem the hard but correct way? -- Don Harper, RHCE email: duck@xxxxxxxxxxxx Just a systems kinda guy... http://www.duckland.org OK, the joke is over. Bring back the Constitution. We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize. - Thich Nhat Hanh
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