On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Tommy McNeely wrote: >Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 16:32:34 -0700 >From: Tommy McNeely <Tommy.McNeely@Sun.COM> >To: psyche-list@redhat.com >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed >List-Id: Discussion of Red Hat Linux 8.0 (Psyche) <psyche-list.redhat.com> >Subject: sbin and /usr/sbin > > >in /etc/profile, I have had to comment out the "if" and "fi" lines to make >the "sbin" paths automatically be part of a "users" path.. (like for >traceroute)... why do I have to do this?? > ># Path manipulation >#if [ `id -u` = 0 ]; then > pathmunge /sbin > pathmunge /usr/sbin > pathmunge /usr/local/sbin >#fi > > >just cause its in the sbin path does not mean that only root can run it... >sbin is for "static-binaries" right?? /sbin and /usr/sbin have never been part of a user's path in traditional Unix and Linux systems. While some distributions may possibly put these directories in users paths by default, it is by no means a standard. -- Mike A. Harris ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris OS Systems Engineer XFree86 maintainer Red Hat Inc. -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
