[14856] in Athena Bugs
Re: athena_path under Solaris
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Mon Dec 2 21:07:44 1996
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 21:07:39 -0500
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Craig Fields <cfields@MIT.EDU>
Cc: jhawk@MIT.EDU, bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[14854] in Athena Bugs"
>> Isn't it about time /sbin and /usr/sbin were added to athena_path
>> for Solaris?
> No... Most of that stuff doesn't belong in the common user's path,
> and they don't want to see it. I believe that most of the stuff in
> those directories that users might actually care about is symlinked
> from other places like /usr/bin.
The obvious exception to this is "ping", which has traditionally been
in a different place on every platform.
There are less important exceptions like ifconfig ("ifconfig -a"),
rwall, mount (displaying the mounted filesystems), modinfo, swap
("swap -l"), and others.
I'm in favor of adding /sbin and /usr/sbin to the default path on
Solaris because there's some value in having it there and very little
value in not having it there. However, this is a release team issue,
not a rel-eng issue.
