Bart Smaalders wrote: > > The default version of any Solaris command for normal users > should be found in /usr/bin. > > Alternate (incompatible) versions of commands w/ the same names > will be found in /usr/<standard name>/bin. > > Any user wishing 1 from column a, 2 from column b, etc, is > heartily encouraged to create ~/bin wherein he > is perfectly free to create a forest of symbolic links to > alternate versions (or his own special versions). He can > then lead with that in his path and follow it with the > whatever default search order he wishes. > > The default versions of Solaris commands will be found in > /usr/bin. > > Choosing a weird directory path to reach a command has been found (in > Solaris) to be a very poor method of doing the following: > > 1) "protecting" users from commands that have different > support levels. > 2) Indicating which group inside Sun made the software > 3) Recording for all time the internecine conflicts in > AT & T during SVR4 development. > 4) separating commands by the type of user (developer, > non-priv'd administrator, etc). > > My path: > > /bin:/usr/sbin:/home/barts/bin:/usr/dt/bin:/usr/openwin/bin:/usr/ccs/bin: > /usr/sfw/bin:/opt/csw/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/sadm/admin/bin:/usr/openwin/demo > > > This is silly. Why do this to ourselves? > Bart,
My path is (embarrasingly): /usr/local/qt/bin:/usr/local/qt/tools:/usr/local/sunCC/SUNWspro/bin:/usr/sfw/bin: /usr/bin:/usr/dt/bin:/usr/openwin/bin:/usr/ucb:/usr/sbin:/usr/sadm/bin:.:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin It's probably got a lot of historical cruft since it was built over my 15+ years of using Solaris. I highly concurr with your assessment of the situation. What I'm not sure is whether you're proposing to move (or link) things like /usr/X11/bin into /usr/bin. I actually think that this is an excellent idea. It solves a bunch of problems, the most notible is the one from column A and two from column B issues that we run into every now and then. If this was done from the start, I probably wouldn't have taken so long to switch from the BSD compatible tools to the Solaris sysV ones. If I had to vote for a proposal so far, I think that this one is the best so far. Gary _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
