On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 4:53 PM, Joseph Kowalski <jek3 at sun.com> wrote: > Shawn Walker wrote: > > I think a better way to handle it is as you suggested: only put things > > intended for "humans to type" in /usr/bin (and thus, the PATH). > > > Does this imply that system administrators aren't human. I somehow > always suspected that :-) > > (Please *really* note the smiley.) > > Seriously, are you a proponent of eliminating /usr/sbin.
I personally have no feeling one way or another on /usr/sbin. I just know that "executable files" (as others have pointed out) that are really intended for the internal operation of a piece of software, not as an "interface" for human beings, serve little purpose in /usr/bin. That and I *very frequently* use commands found only in /usr/sbin, such as the zfs ones. I wasn't part of the serendipitous discovery discussion; but I felt compelled to comment on this particular one. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." - Robert Orben
