prompts in command examples

Murray McAllister murray.mcallister at gmail.com
Tue Oct 7 22:03:38 UTC 2008


On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 5:42 AM, Karsten 'quaid' Wade <kwade at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 07:46 +1000, Murray McAllister wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 7:01 AM, Karsten 'quaid' Wade <kwade at redhat.com> wrote:
>> [snip]
>> > * Use full path to command when it is not likely to be in the _user's_
>> > default path, which is changing for F10.
>>
>> I started using the full path, then realized it is not needed for
>> Fedora 10, so I stopped using it. I'm going to go back and fix all of
>> these up, because everyone reading might not have Fedora 10 :(
>>
>> Should documentation for Fedora 10 assume that people only use Fedora
>> 10 (e.g. do not use the full path)?
>
> That is a great question.  I just confirmed in the Beta that the user
> $PATH is functionally the same as root's (minus /usr/kerberos/sbin).
>
> It appears we can, for the first time, remove full paths from most
> commands.  One can always use it for clarity sake, but the full path
> usually clutters the content.
>
> Any objections?
>
> - Karsten
I'm leaving full paths in the SELinux User Guide (to accommodate F9
users), unless there are objections ;)




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