On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 09:23:11AM +0300, Eray Ozkural wrote: > > For simplicity's sake, I think it's just good enough to include /sbin, > > /usr/sbin and /usr/local/sbin in user's default path. > On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 02:42:37AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > I think if someone has to do such a thing, then: > > a) they forgot to su root; or > b) they don't know they need privleges to use the command in question; or > c) the command doesn't belong in sbin anyway.
While I agree with your thinking, I think you've left out a case: d) they don't know about an alternative command which is already in their path. [For example: netstat -er gives the same information as route.] While I'm on this subject, I should mention: the man page for the netstat in netbase 3.18-1 claimed: "netstat -ei will print a table or a single interface entry just like ifconfig does." This is true for the netstat in net-tools 1.57-1, but was blatantly false for the netstat that came with netbase. Strangely, the manpage in net-tools doesn't document this behavior (nor the netstat -er behavior). I wonder if this new lack of documentation should be considered a bug? -- Raul