On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 20:52 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > 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. I personally have come to like typing the full paths for /sbin /usr/sbin stuff, only problem is, sometimes things that one would feel is more appropriate in /sbin isn't there (setenforce etc). I haven't added such to my . files for such a long time it's not funny, to the point where just typing 'ifconfig' before felt unnatural... I can however live with either, I literally don't give a damn and it doesn't bother me... :) -- Nigel Jones <dev@xxxxxxxxxx> -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
