svn commit: r310354 - in head/usr.sbin: . prometheus_sysctl_exporter

[Brooks Davis]

On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 08:42:24PM +0100, Ed Schouten wrote:
> Hey!
> 
> 2016-12-21 20:53 GMT+01:00 Edward Tomasz Napiera??a <trasz at freebsd.org>:
> > That's a very good reason; it could also be fixed by moving
> > it from sbin/ to libexec/.
> 
> I'm not sure that doing that is a good idea. You can also invoke this
> exporter through cron(8), so that it can be collected by the
> Prometheus node exporter. Another use case is invoking it from within
> a CGI script, so that it can be embedded in an existing web service.
> Storing the executable under /usr/libexec would therefore be a bit
> weird.

To me, those use cases argue for /usr/libexec which is for things
humans don't run.

-- Brooks
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