Cyril Plisko writes: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 2:28 PM, James Carlson <james.d.carlson at sun.com> > wrote: > > 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 ?
Well, for instance, there's not much that an ordinary user ought to be doing with zonecfg or devfsadm. > 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... If what you're saying is that we sometimes get the choice wrong, then I agree. If you're saying that the choice can be pretty unclear in some instances, I'd also agree. If you're saying that the choice is probably a bogus issue and folding it all in /usr/bin would be simpler answer for the long term, I'd probably agree with that as well. However, the previous poster was asserting that there's no precedent here, or at least that the ARC needs to set precedent, and that's incorrect. There's clear precedent -- whether we choose to follow it correctly or not. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <james.d.carlson at sun.com> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677
