On 20 Dec 2011, at 3:10 PM, Jeff Trawick wrote: >>> None of these require the user to be administrator, except to use the >>> apxs -i option. Not really sure if these make sense. Any pointers to >>> a decent canonical definition of sbin v bin? >> >> You're right, the current split doesn't seem to make much sense. >> >> I think apxs belongs in bin, given that "apxs -i" is the same as "make >> install" and make goes in bin. > > /usr/sbin/apxs seems to be the usual place in my non-scientific survey.
I see this is true for Fedora and Redhat, though it doesn't seem to make sense - non root users want to compile Apache httpd modules too, and shouldn't need to fiddle with paths to get it. >> In the case of ab, logresolve, httxt2dbm and rotatelogs, these are >> definitely bin. > > rotatelogs isn't expected to be used by end users. Why not sbin? > > In general, looking at and possibly following the distros for bin vs > sbin could be helpful. I had analysed the Fedora packaging split for bin/sbin already, but had missed rotatelogs, which they place in sbin. That does make some sense, will change it again. Regards, Graham --
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