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? > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >