Since that isn't a typical user utility. I'd normally want to keep the
shell users out of stuff they have no business using. Ping included.

Josh

On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, Callum Lerwick wrote:

> > I think the directory structure is a little odd at first, but once you
> > learn it it makes more sense (to me anyways).  The one thing that still
> > bugs me though is all the variations of bin laying around.. /bin,
> > /usr/bin, /sbin, /usr/sbin, /usr/local/bin.  Why is there a /bin and a
> > /usr/bin?  and although I can see the logic of keeping root-only utils in
> > /sbin, if you have to be root to run them anyway, why not dump it all in
> > /bin?  I'm planning to start doing this on some of my boxen, dump all the
> > files from /usr/bin, /sbin, /usr/sbin into /bin and then symlink the old
> > bin directories, since I assume stuff is compiled to look for /usr/sbin
> > and whatnot.  Any reason why I couldn't do this?
>
> Nope. Ain't Linux great...
>
> Personally I hate the practice that seems to have turned up lately of
> putting useful luser utilities like traceroute in /usr/sbin. What the
> hell? Since when is traceroute a root util?
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