utilities in /usr/bin or /usr/sbin?

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Thu Jun 14 22:38:26 UTC 2018


On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 2:15 PM, Rick Macklem <rmacklem at uoguelph.ca> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have  three new utilities that are mainly useful for managing the pNFS
> server
> committed as r335130.
>
> In the projects tree, I have them in /usr/bin and man section 1. However,
> since they are mostly useful to a sysadmin managing the pNFS service,
> I'm thinking that maybe they should be in /usr/sbin with man pages in
> section 8.
>
> Which of these sounds correct?
>

/usr/sbin is the more proper location if they are truly admin-only commands.

Warner


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