few ideas how to make fedora better as a desktop

Miroslav Lichvar mlichvar at redhat.com
Sat Mar 29 09:46:09 UTC 2008


On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 09:17:44AM +0100, Benny Amorsen wrote:
> Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar at redhat.com> writes:
> 
> > But ordinary users don't need these commands. You are acting as an
> > administrator when you are using them. The information you get isn't
> > very useful unless you can switch to root if something is wrong.
> 
> They are essential when remote debugging over the phone. Telling users
> to type /sbin/ is a pain over the phone, and so is remembering which
> commands are in /sbin/ and which are in /usr/sbin/.

Again, it's not the user who needs the commands, it's you. I'd suggest
to add an alias like this to a bash startup file:

alias sbinpath="export PATH=$PATH:/usr/sbin:/sbin"

And the debugging will start with "type sbinpath, enter".

-- 
Miroslav Lichvar




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