Quoth Thomas M Steenholdt:
Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 20:33 +0300, Axel Thimm wrote:
>> In a nutshell: Keep things as are, but if there really is a command
>> that is used by "normal" users move that out of sbin or make a
symlink
>> (commands that used to live in sbin and moved out are for example
>> ping and traceroute)
>
> If we were to keep things the way they are, we need to munge sudo so
> that it takes into account the sbin paths. Continually doing "sbin foo"
> and getting foo not found is infuriating to no end, combined with the
> guessing game of "is it /sbin or /usr/sbin I must call out on this
> system this week".
>
>
+1
This is exactly what we need for this problem.
/Thomas
I don't know if other people use this at all or not, but something I find
incredibly useful about having sbin and friends in PATH is that I can
tab-complete many of the sbin commands I use on a regular basis. This
convenience means one of the first things I add to my .bashrc on a new
account anywhere is 'export PATH="$PATH:/sbin:/usr/sbin"'.
Having sudo look in /sbin and /usr/sbin does not address tab-completion in
bash.
Regards,
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Conrad Meyer <konrad(a)tylerc.org>