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| On 2/4/07, Nick ! <kousue@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2/4/07, Matthew R. Dempsky <mrd@alkemio.org> wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 01:59:18AM -0500, Nick ! wrote: > > > Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the point that /usr/local/sbin > > > should only be in the path if the user explicitly makes it so, so that > > > shady programs are less troublesome or something? > > > > What distinguishes /usr/local/sbin from /sbin, /usr/sbin, and > > /usr/local/bin (all of which are included in _PATH_{DEF,STD}PATH) in > > this regard? > > > > I don't know. I was stretching a guess. I was thinking, this is such a > fundamentally simple change that there must be a reason it's like it > is. Does anyone know? > > -Nick > > I notice that /usr/local/bin was added to _PATH_STDPATH on 1998/03/31 (rev 1.11). Pure speculation but I wonder if, at that time, few or none of the ports installed executables into /usr/local/sbin. At any rate, many ports currently install there and not being able to find them with whereis(1) is annoying at the very least. ....GH |