/sbin not in path

[Sean Earp]

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