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From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
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Subject: Re: utilities in /usr/bin or /usr/sbin?
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Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2018 17:44:05 -0700 (PDT)
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> On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 2:15 PM, Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have  three new utilities that are mainly useful for managing the pNFS
> > server
> > committed as r335130.
> >
> > In the projects tree, I have them in /usr/bin and man section 1. However,
> > since they are mostly useful to a sysadmin managing the pNFS service,
> > I'm thinking that maybe they should be in /usr/sbin with man pages in
> > section 8.
> >
> > Which of these sounds correct?
> >
> 
> /usr/sbin is the more proper location if they are truly admin-only commands.

Dont these commands require root priv to work?
If so they are certainly /usr/sbin material.


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Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes@freebsd.org