Incorrect order of /usr/bin and /usr/sbin in path

Adam Jackson ajax at redhat.com
Mon May 5 14:28:51 UTC 2014


On Sun, 2014-05-04 at 18:59 +0200, Reindl Harald wrote:

> however, the semantics of /usr/sbin is to contain superuser
> binaries which should not be overriden because a binary
> with the same name exists in /usr/bin

My memory is that the "s" was more for "static" not "superuser".
There's some conceptual overlap, static binaries being there to recover
even if your shared libraries are hosed which is normally a "superuser"
kind of operation, but.

- ajax



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