Adding /sbin and /usr/sbin to everyone's path in F10
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Thu Apr 24 01:34:17 UTC 2008
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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