Adding /sbin and /usr/sbin to everyone's path in F10

[Casey Dahlin]

Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 14:59 -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
>   
>> Once upon a time, Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org> said:
>>     
>>> And I think we could solve 99.9% of the annoyance by addressing ifconfig,
>>> fdisk, lsmod, route, and the other small handful of programs mentioned in
>>> this thread. Like I said, it worked for traceroute back in 2003. :)
>>>       
>> Again, here's my personal list-at-a-glance of things to look at:
>>
>> bind:
>>    /usr/sbin/rndc
>>
>> chkconfig:
>>    /sbin/chkconfig
>>
>> freeipmi:
>>    /usr/sbin/ipmiconsole
>>    /usr/sbin/ipmipower
>>
>> hardlink:
>>    /usr/sbin/hardlink
>>
>> iproute:
>>    /sbin/ip
>>
>> module-init-tools:
>>    /sbin/lsmod
>>    /sbin/modinfo
>>
>> net-tools:
>>    /sbin/arp
>>    /sbin/ifconfig
>>    /sbin/route
>>
>> ntp:
>>    /usr/sbin/ntpq
>>
>> pciutils:
>>    /sbin/lspci
>>
>> usbutils:
>>    /sbin/lsusb
>>
>> wireless-tools:
>>    /sbin/iwconfig
>>    /sbin/iwlist
>>
>> That's 16 commands from 11 packages.  Yes, there are a few more, but not
>> all that many.  How hard would is be to just fix these (either symlink
>> or just move to /bin or /usr/bin as appropriate)?
>>     
>
> How could you leave /sbin/pidof out?  Oh why, really, why is pidof
> in /sbin in the first place?  sigh...
>
>   

Because pidof is considered a helper application for init and init 
scripts (indeed, it is packaged as part of sysvinit). Its not really 
considered a tool for interactive use. (not that I agree).

--CJD