On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Dave Myers wrote:
>
> Thanks Mark, I deleted the /usr/local/samba/2.2.6 files & dirs and started
> over,
> and it worked ok.
>
> Found it odd though that even though I used the SuSE spec file when I ran
> ./configure
> the binaries installed into /usr/bin instead of /usr/sbin.
>
> There were already samba binaries in /usr/sbin from a previous tar install,
> so do you think
> that is whey 2.2.6 was installed into /usr/bin ???
>
> I copied and overlaid the binaries in /usr/sbin with the new 2.2.6 binaries
> from /usr/bin....
> I hope that is ok?? Samba seems to be working ok.
I would leave the binaries where the rpm put them. Copying them to another location
makes the package harder to 'rpm --erase' or 'rpm --upgrade' some time in the future
and may lead to mysterious failures to execute the correct versions.
While {,/usr}/sbin is the correct place for binaries for administrative uses,
it's not important to the operation of the programs except for those occasions
where someone unilaterally decides to execute them from a specific location.
When that happens, it's most likely that someone will be looking in the place
the vendor put them.
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