On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 2:28 PM, James Carlson <james.d.carlson at sun.com>
wrote:
>
> We have a precedent. Things that are useful only for the system
> administrator go in /usr/sbin. Things that are useful for regular
> users go in /usr/bin.
>
> That precedent is documented on the filesystem(5) man page.
>
> It has nothing to do with privilege or risk. The only question to
> answer here (for this issue) is whether fping is useful for ordinary
> users. If it's not, then /usr/sbin would be the right answer.
>
What criteria are used to determine whether a particular utility
is useful for ordinary user ?
I consider myself an ordinary user and I cannot imaging working
w/o /usr/sbin in my path - I must be missing something obvious here...
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Regards,
Cyril
