Re: /etc/profile should include sbin in PATH

1999-12-28 Thread Brian Mays
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Greg Stark) wrote: > ... there are many programs in sbin that are useful for ordinary users > including the two explicitly listed in the FSSTND, traceroute and > ifconfig. Hmmm... Let's see. From the ifconfig(8) man page: NAME ifconfig - configure a network interface

Re: /etc/profile should include sbin in PATH

1999-12-26 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Fri, Dec 24, 1999 at 06:16:36PM -0500, Greg Stark wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes: > > > The GNU project adopted /sbin because ordinary users should not be > > burdened with executables that they *cannot* run usefully. (Which is > > in fact the same reason that they