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Date:      Thu, 30 Aug 2001 15:34:07 -0400
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        obrien@FreeBSD.org, Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.org>, Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>, Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin Makefile src/usr.sbin/daemon Makefile daemon.8 daemon.c
Message-ID:  <p05101000b7b43f30123c@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <20010830111247.C95141@dragon.nuxi.com>
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At 11:12 AM -0700 8/30/01, David O'Brien wrote:
>On Thu, Aug 30, 2001, Mike Barcroft wrote:
>  > > I don't think that these arguments are very strong, I am with Dima
>  > > on that - put it into usr.bin instead.
>  >
>>  Please tell me why you believe its intended use isn't a strong
>>  argument for its location.  It's not that I'm unwilling to move it, I
>>  would just appreciate a justifiable reason before I gratuitously break
>>  compatibility with BSD/OS.
>
>Agreed.

Agreed.  Anyone can RUN it out of /usr/sbin, just as anyone can RUN
ping even though it's in /sbin.  It also seems like more of "systems-y"
function -- this isn't something that every user is likely to need.

I might have put it in /usr/bin with nohup if I were dreaming this
up from scratch, but I don't see what is gained by moving it to a
different location than BSD/OS went with.  Moving it just means that
if I write a script to look for it, the script has to look in two
places.

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu

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