Should chown be in /usr/sbin ?

Frank Laszlo laszlof at tvog.net
Thu Feb 24 20:42:09 GMT 2005


Darryl L. Miles wrote:

>
> Dear Package Maintainer,
>
> /usr/sbin isn't (and should IMHO) be in the default path for such 
> things as cron jobs, however running a shell script from a cron job 
> should be able to find the chown without any special $PATH buggery.
>
> Maybe there is a legitimate explaination.  Glancing over the rest of 
> /usr/sbin most of whats there are daemons, network services and 
> periodically used administration / diagnostic tools, chown doesn't 
> seem to fit with anything else.
>
> I've 5.2.1-RELEASE installed.
>

btw, this is not a ports related issue, it really shouldn't be on this 
list. probably -questions would be better.


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