On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 8:24 PM, Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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? > I won't say you are whining.. but you are the first systems administrator I have met in several years who hasn't had /usr/sbin:/sbin in their default path. You sure they didn't make you a manager and didn't tell you? I think the chance for putting it back is still there.. if someone is willing to do the work on the hard but correct way? I think it was crickets the last couple of times when volunteers were asked for that. -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
