tab completion less useful now, due to sbin in path

Arthur Pemberton pemboa at gmail.com
Tue Oct 7 14:41:37 UTC 2008


On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 8:18 AM, Benny Amorsen <benny+usenet at amorsen.dk> wrote:
> Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org> writes:
>
>> No, we don't start voting. We put things where it's sensible. That's usually
>> incredibly obvious, and where it's a more difficult case, we make a decision
>> based on a reasonable policy. Like with, say, "does it even work as
>> non-root" as one element. Crazy talk, I know, but there you have it.
>
> If it is so incredibly obvious, how did tcpdump end up in /sbin? Once
> you have moved all the networking utilities and all the disk utilities
> from /sbin, is there really anything left?


What system/specification is fedora following?

According to the FHS [1]:
/sbin is for "Utilities used for system administration (and other
root-only commands)"


[1] http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#SBINSYSTEMBINARIES

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