Re: /sbin not in path
Thanks Daniel and Mike-
You guys are, of course, absolutely correct. I have finally managed to
find a site that lays out what the purpose of the standard directories
are in Linux. Had I read it before I submitted the question, I would
have been able to answer it myself. If you are a Linux newbie like
myself, make sure to bookmark this handy reference:
<http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.2/>
Hope this helps someone,
-Sean
On Feb 23, 2004, at 5:58 PM, Daniel Roesen wrote:
On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 08:16:49PM -0800, Sean Earp wrote:
> My question is... Is the omission of the /sbin directory in the
> default path an error, or is something messed up with my installation?
Intentional. /sbin and /usr/sbin are supposed for binaries which are
of (almost) only use to the root user, not normal unpriviledged
users. As such, $PATH of non-root users doesn't contain any sbin
directories.
Wether this distinction makes great sense or not is a debate which
can easily explode to a flamefest, so I won't get into arguing.
:-)
> As far as I recall, ifconfig worked just fine in FC1
No, FC1 works as described above (as did all Red Hat Linux releases
I can remember).
Regards,
Daniel