Thomas M Steenholdt wrote:
>>>> My concern would more be on the sudden appearance in
PATH of
>>>> daemons that have no business being run from the shell even as root
>>>> (other than for debugging), such has httpd or wpa_supplicant, but
>>>> maybe that's another debate...
>>>
>>> Are you suggesting that there is something wrong with debugging, or
>>> that it should be made more difficult???
>>
>> ???
>>
>> in the past year, how many times have you started httpd by running
>> manually, rather than by 'service httpd start' ?
>
> Most of our web services are java and done by another group now, but
> when I was more involved and using mod_perl I'd start it that way
> regularly to be able to run a single instance where I could debug
> execution. It's not something unexpected.
>
Not unexpected but also not an everyday task for the majority of users.
I'm sure prepending /sbin/ to your command og modding your env to
include /sbin in your path would be okay in situations like this.
It is always OK.
The fact that a few ppl think some particular config is the best,
doesn't automatically mean that everybody else thinks so too.
Try it and report back when you see an actual problem.
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Les Mikesell
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