On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Guy Harris wrote: > I'm not a system administrator at work, but I do run "nslookup" fairly > frequently. [...] > I'm not an administrator, but I *do* run packet analysis programs....
You don't need to be an administrator to run an administrative task (like you don't need to be a car mechanic to repair your car). And being a professional or not doesn't change the characteristic of the task. > > 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".... A normal user can legitimately compile code, e.g. a software developer might certainly do that regularly. > "Most" by count of machines, or "most" by count of operating systems? I mean OSes, of course. > Many System V-derived systems - including SunOS 5.x - use section 1m; > there are a fair number of Solaris boxes out there.... That's the only OS I recall to do so. Maciej -- + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], PGP key available + - 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
