On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:46:44 +0000, Aaron Crane <hate...@aaroncrane.co.uk> wrote:
> H.Merijn Brand <h.m.br...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > > # yast2 sw_single > > Absolute path to 'yast2' is '/sbin/yast2', so running it may require > > superuser privileges (eg. root). > > I entirely agree that this is utterly hateful. (For one thing, the > idea that there's a strong relationship between living in a */sbin > directory and requiring superuser privileges is clearly nonsense.) > > But the Bash source doesn't seem to contain relevant chunks of that > message, so I fear that, if you want to correctly apportion blame, you > should probably look elsewhere. If I wanted to do that myself, I'd > start by seeing if SUSE (Yast is a SUSE-ism, right?) has a custom Bash > patch which adds that behaviour. But I think doing so would probably > just expose me to more software hatefulness, so I'm not going to > bother. OpenSUSE 11.2 For all below the working directory is /tmp and I am root bash# vgscan Absolute path to 'vgscan' is '/sbin/vgscan', so running it may require superuser privileges (eg. root). csh# vgscan Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... tcsh# vgscan Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... sh> vgscan sh: vgscan: command not found ksh# vgscan ksh: vgscan: not found [No such file or directory] zsh# vgscan zsh: command not found: vgscan Program 'vgscan' is present in package 'lvm2', which is installed on your system. Absolute path to 'vgscan' is '/sbin/vgscan', so running it may require superuser privileges (eg. root). -- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using 5.00307 through 5.12 and porting perl5.13.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, 11.23 and 11.31, OpenSuSE 10.1, 11.0 .. 11.3 and AIX 5.2 and 5.3. http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org/ http://qa.perl.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/
