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

Rodney W. Grimes freebsd-rwg at pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net
Fri Jun 15 00:44:10 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.

Dont these commands require root priv to work?
If so they are certainly /usr/sbin material.


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Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org


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