On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 11:23:40AM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > Well, you don't need administrative privileges to run, say, `nslookup', > yet it resides in $(sbindir) as it is normally run by administators only.
I'm not sure that's the right place to put "nslookup", either. I'm not a system administrator at work, but I do run "nslookup" fairly frequently. > > Somebody who isn't an administrator might run it on a capture file that > > somebody's sent to them. > > Of course, but that's an administrative task anyway. I'm not an administrator, but I *do* run packet analysis programs.... > You don't expect > normal users (say an office clerk or a graphic artist) to perform such > actions, do you? No, but I don't expect them to compile code, either - but that doesn't mean I think "make" or "cc" belong in "/usr/sbin".... > > > Thus I believe its manual page should reside in section #8. > > > > That's not the case on all UNIXes; on some UNIXes, if it were an > > administrative command, it'd reside in section 1m. > > Hmm, my observation so far is most systems use section 8 and the ones > using other sections are exceptions rather than a rule. "Most" by count of machines, or "most" by count of operating systems? Many System V-derived systems - including SunOS 5.x - use section 1m; there are a fair number of Solaris boxes out there.... - This is the TCPDUMP workers list. It is archived at http://www.tcpdump.org/lists/workers/index.html To unsubscribe use mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=unsubscribe
