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

Jon Kent jon.kent at gmail.com
Mon May 5 15:43:50 UTC 2014


Hi,

That's my recollection as well. Heard that confusion about sbin being for
superuser before.

Jon
 On 5 May 2014 15:29, "Adam Jackson" <ajax at redhat.com> wrote:

> 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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