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Date:      Sat, 18 Nov 1995 09:26:35 +1100
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        j@uriah.heep.sax.de, wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de
Cc:        asami@cs.berkeley.edu, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: absolute pathnames in /usr/share/mk/bsd.*.mk
Message-ID:  <199511172226.JAA26103@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>I think the /sbin references in bsd.kmod.mk could go away.
>mod(un)loading is only allowed for the superuser anyway, who's
>expected to have /sbin in his $path.

>The absolute references in bsd.port.mk are okay.  I'm not sure about
>the mtree command, the remaining commands must be executable for
>regular users, too.

mtree should be in /usr/bin (it's useful for managing your own trees)
and absolute paths shouldn't be used except for security.

Bruce



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