On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 06:13:39PM -0500, Richard Kreuter wrote: > On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 11:35:36PM +0100, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 02:49:21PM -0500, Richard Kreuter wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 07:42:56PM +0100, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > > > > > > > > Yes, but I can't find a rationale for the /sbin directory. > > > > > > Maybe there isn't a good one. (It seems to exist (in the FHS, at > > > any rate) so that some commands will be out of the way for normal > > > users. Given the number of programs on a modern system, though, any > > > command the user doesn't already know about is out of the way, in the > > > sense that the user will only find it by chance.) > > > > You mean they have to do "ls /sbin" or have to put sbin in there PATH > > manually? Really, I don't think it's a good argument. Why do you want > > to hide the binaries? > > Normal users under normal system circumstances don't need these > binaries, and on other systems mostly can't use them. If they are not > useful and not usable, they might as well be omitted from the path > directories.
I don't think it's useful for about 20 binaries. There is more unuseful crap in /bin I think. > > I think the whole /sbin directory is old unix-craft like /usr. If you > > move all binaries which can be useful as a normal user to /bin you > > don't have much left. AFAICS both the FHS and the GCS allow symlinking > > /sbin to /bin. Does anybody see a reason for not doing so? > > I don't want to defend the /sbin directory any more. An > administrator is welcome to modify their systems to his heart's > content; we're working on integrating two existing sets of standards, > right? Throwing both out might have benefits, but that's not what > we're discussing. To answer your question, I can see two: GNU > standards compliance, and accordance with FHS rationale and > motivation. The rationale is just that, we are compliant. GCS doesn't say that /sbin has to be a directory, only that programs should install things in that directory. Jeroen Dekkers -- Jabber supporter - http://www.jabber.org Jabber ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org http://www.gnu.org IRC: jeroen@openprojects
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