Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd really like to see the list expanded to include /sbin and /usr/sbin > as well. My rationale is that init.d scripts are intended (and mostly > only useful) for the root user, and the the whole point of /sbin > and /usr/sbin is to contain scripts useful for the root user. It is > completely reasonable to assume that those directories are in the path, > and my opinion is that if they aren't, the admin needs to fix their > system.
Exactly. In fact, if we did anything to promote the automatic adding of /sbin and /usr/sbin to the PATH variable, then the default behaviour of dpkg where it fails if things like start-stop-daemon isn't found in a PATH search would stand out like sore thumb. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
