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On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 13:05:42 +0000, Peter Risdon
<peter@circlesquared.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 07:53 -0500, Marty Landman wrote:
> > Let's say I want to
> >
> > mv /sbin /usr/sbin
> > mv /root /usr/root
> >
> > How problematic can this become? I can anticipate at least having to revise
> > perl scripts that reference the sendmail path, although
> >
> > ln -s /usr/sbin/sendmail /sbin/sendmail
> >
> > will avoid having to 'fix' source code, right?
> 
> How about:
> 
> #mv /sbin /usr/sbin
> #ln -s /usr/sbin /sbin
> #mv /root /usr/root
> #ln -s /usr/root /root

Or just stop logging in as root, setup a user account for 
admin tasks, and learn to use sudo ;) 


-- 
Joshua Lokken
Open Source Advocate