Same comand names in /usr/bin and /usr/sbin

Reindl Harald h.reindl at thelounge.net
Sun Aug 16 23:25:49 UTC 2015



Am 17.08.2015 um 01:22 schrieb Nico Kadel-Garcia:
> On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 6:24 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 2:31 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> Am 16.08.2015 um 18:57 schrieb Nico Kadel-Garcia:
>>>>
>>>> It's a basic violation of the ordinary segregation between "/bin" as
>>>> ordinary user tools" and "/sbin" as sysadmin tools to start mixing
>>>> them, and much more confusing to have the same program name in both.
>>>> And it's frankly easy to avoid. "mock", for example, should rename
>>>> "/.sbin/mock" to something else to avoid command line confusion
>>>
>>> nonsense
>>>
>>> ./sbin/ is nowehre in the FHS
>>> ./sbin/ is not below/usr
>>> ./sbin is not protected ReadOnlyDirectories=/usr
>>>
>>> /usr/lib/appname and /usr/libexec exists
>>
>> /sbin isn't a separate filesystem, it is a subdirectory of "/", and
>> it's explicitly mentioned at
>> http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.2/fhs-3.14.html as requiring copies or
>> symlinks to certain specific, long-stable program names. Let me quote
>> that document:
>
> Ahhh, I am sorry, I may have contributed to the confusion by mistyping
> "/sbin" as ""/.sbin". I'm on a new email interface, and am having some
> difficulty with "overwriting" as opposed to my preferred default
> "insertion" for editing. But that was my own fault

the same nonsense

/sbin is the same as /usr/sbin for a long time now

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