Hi,
thanx for the repport, I'll move it to /usr/bin.

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 8:12 PM, Florian Lohoff <f...@zz.de> wrote:
> Package: ftpwatch
> Version: 1.20
> Severity: minor
>
>
> Hi,
> i think ftpwatch should be in /usr/bin not /usr/sbin as its not
> a system binary. Its for general user consumption as also the
> manpage states:
>
>        "Every user who wants to use it should install it
>        into his crontab file."
>
> FHS States:
>
> 3.14.1 Purpose
>        Utilities used for system administration (and other root-only commands)
>        are stored in /sbin, /usr/sbin, and /usr/local/sbin. /sbin contains
>        binaries essential for booting, restoring, recovering, and/or repairing
>        the system in addition to the binaries in /bin.15 Programs executed
>        after /usr is known to be mounted (when there are no problems) are
>        generally placed into /usr/sbin.  Locally-installed system
>        administration programs should be placed into /usr/local/sbin.16
>
> and continues:
>
> 4.10 /usr/sbin : Non-essential standard system binaries
> 4.10.1 Purpose
>        This directory contains any non-essential binaries used exclusively by
>        the system administrator. System administration programs that are
>        required for system repair, system recovery, mounting /usr, or other
>        essential functions must be placed in /sbin instead.24
>
> /usr/sbin is root only for system administration which ftpwatch is
> IMHO not ...
>
> Flo
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 5.0.6
>  APT prefers stable
>  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
>
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: 
> LC_ALL set to en_US.utf-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
>
> Versions of packages ftpwatch depends on:
> ii  perl                     5.10.0-19lenny2 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
> ii  perl-modules [libnet-per 5.10.0-19lenny2 Core Perl modules
>
> ftpwatch recommends no packages.
>
> ftpwatch suggests no packages.
>
> -- no debconf information
>
>
>



-- 
Håkan Ardö



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