On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 18:19 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>
> /bin vs. /usr/bin is motivated by the FHS mandating /usr to be on a
> filesystem of its own (and systems to be able to boot without /usr being
> available), while the */bin vs. */sbin split is motivated by splitting
> _system_ binaries off from ordinary users' $PATH.
But until the "system" runs these perfectly and completely automatically
(i.e. never), users will have to execute them under circumstances that
are already confusing enough without having differences between having
used 'su' and 'su -' first.
So what?
They are acting as sys admins, therefore need to learn to act as such
and need to go through a learning curve in any case. In this context,
"su -", "su" etc. are marginal, negligible details.
Ralf