Disagree on this. Those programs are intentionally not in the path, since you don't run them by hand.
I think you are making a mountain out of a molehill. Lyndon Nerenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > For programs that live in /usr/libexec, those with manpages show > just the bare program name in the SYNOPSIS section (when there is > a SYNOPSIS section). > > There is a long-standing expectation that programs documented in > section 8 of the manual can be run from a shell with /sbin:/usr/sbin > in the $PATH. It's frustrating for newer BSD admins when foo(8) > programs aren't there, apparently, due to living in libexec. Also, > sometimes, even for the older BSD admins who expect to find these > things in *sbin from, e.g., older SunOS releases. > > What I'd like to do is fully qualify the paths to those commands in > the SYNOPSIS section, where that makes sense. E.g. for the mail.*(8) > entries, 'mail.*' becomes '/usr/libexec/mail.*' under SYNOPSIS (only). > > For entries that have a *sbin command shadowing a /usr/libexec program, > nothing changes. > > If people think this makes sense I'll sendbug a patch. > > --lyndon >
