Konrad Meyer wrote:
Quoth Thomas M Steenholdt:Jesse Keating wrote:On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 20:33 +0300, Axel Thimm wrote:In a nutshell: Keep things as are, but if there really is a command that is used by "normal" users move that out of sbin or make a symlink (commands that used to live in sbin and moved out are for example ping and traceroute)If we were to keep things the way they are, we need to munge sudo so that it takes into account the sbin paths. Continually doing "sbin foo" and getting foo not found is infuriating to no end, combined with the guessing game of "is it /sbin or /usr/sbin I must call out on this system this week".+1 This is exactly what we need for this problem. /ThomasI don't know if other people use this at all or not, but something I find incredibly useful about having sbin and friends in PATH is that I can tab-complete many of the sbin commands I use on a regular basis. This convenience means one of the first things I add to my .bashrc on a new account anywhere is 'export PATH="$PATH:/sbin:/usr/sbin"'.Having sudo look in /sbin and /usr/sbin does not address tab-completion in bash.Regards,
bash can be persuaded to provide tab-completion for rather exotic situations... Including stuff like "service ht[TAB]"...
/Thomas