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

Thomas M Steenholdt tmus at tmus.dk
Thu Apr 24 00:51:22 UTC 2008


Toshio Kuratomi wrote:

> While I'm all for #2, if #3 is what happens, please make your symlinks 
> the other way around.
> 
> /bin/ifconfig
> ln -s /bin/ifconfig /sbin/ifconfig
> 
> The move is acknowledging that the binary is useful for end users and 
> therefore belongs in their path (and thus rightfully belongs in /bin). 
> The symlink is backwards compatibility for scripts and people who are 
> used to typing sudo /sbin/ifconfig.
> 

I believe the symlinks should be the other way around (ln -s 
/sbin/ifconfig /bin/ifconfig), signifying an admin tool that can be 
useful for normal users. Most (if not all) of them are limited in 
functionality when not run as root.

Taken from the man page, ifconfig is primarily a configuration tool, not 
an info tool.

  ifconfig - configure a network interface

/Thomas




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