On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 10:33:24AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Sat, 23 Nov 2002, Mike A. Harris wrote: > > > /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. > > i have, for a long time, *personally* added /sbin and /usr/sbin to > my own non-root account search path, so that i can run commands like > "ifconfig" and "mount" just to *display* that info. I add /sbin and /usr/sbin to my path for those reasons, plus making it easy to run those commands privileged via sudo (eg, sudo service <service> restart). I also agree that it's a user-specific thing, but if the system administrator wants to make those available to all users at login time, then he can do so. Nobody is forcing anybody to accept the default paths - they're just defaults that work well for most people. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@ewilts.org Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
