Author: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net>
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 10:20:59 -0400
Greetings; I've been trying to help Anne Wilson setup a working amanda system at her place for over a week now, and having all sorts of troubles that were triggered by the amanda executables not bein
Author: Matt Hyclak <hyclak AT math.ohiou DOT edu>
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 11:17:18 -0400
On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 10:20:59AM -0400, Gene Heskett enlightened us: Generally speaking, {foo}/sbin directories are system commands that normal users shouldn't/needn't be running. There are obvious
Author: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net>
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 15:27:27 -0400
So thats why its called Sbin. I always thought it was supposed to be Scriptbin in the *nix lingo. I agree there 100% Which is what Anne was being, a good little lady and logging in as amanda from a l
Author: Matt Hyclak <hyclak AT math.ohiou DOT edu>
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 15:43:01 -0400
On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 03:27:27PM -0400, Gene Heskett enlightened us: On my system (CentOS 4), /etc/profile doesn't remove */sbin paths. It only adds them for UID 0: if [ `id -u` = 0 ]; then pathmun
Originally sbin was static bin, i.e., programs that were statically linked so as not to require share libraries that may or may not exist if in single-user mode with no filesystems mounted besides /.
And then to really add to confusion, my Solaris 9 system has lots of dynamically linked programs in /usr/sbin, but also has a directory called /usr/sbin/static !! -- Jon H. LaBadie jon AT jgcomp DOT
Author: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net>
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 16:59:51 -0400
Ahh, I had the impression, obviously wrong, that it was able to strip an unwanted path from the users $PATH, and that was what it was doing. I didn't see the == 0 there either, my bad. Thanks for tha