On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 08:42:24PM +0100, Ed Schouten wrote: > Hey! > > 2016-12-21 20:53 GMT+01:00 Edward Tomasz Napiera??a <[email protected]>: > > That's a very good reason; it could also be fixed by moving > > it from sbin/ to libexec/. > > I'm not sure that doing that is a good idea. You can also invoke this > exporter through cron(8), so that it can be collected by the > Prometheus node exporter. Another use case is invoking it from within > a CGI script, so that it can be embedded in an existing web service. > Storing the executable under /usr/libexec would therefore be a bit > weird.
To me, those use cases argue for /usr/libexec which is for things humans don't run. -- Brooks
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