From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A4DE1384B4 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 2015 17:25:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F35E621C08E; Wed, 25 Nov 2015 17:24:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 15D2E21C07F for ; Wed, 25 Nov 2015 17:24:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (c-98-218-46-55.hsd1.md.comcast.net [98.218.46.55]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: mjo) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C075433FFDD for ; Wed, 25 Nov 2015 17:24:52 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: adding sbin directories to PATH for all users To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <20151125171011.GA8731@whubbs1.ad.gaikai.biz> From: Michael Orlitzky Message-ID: <5655EEDE.4070107@gentoo.org> Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 12:24:46 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20151125171011.GA8731@whubbs1.ad.gaikai.biz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: f31dbe4b-909e-474b-86ff-c7dced158136 X-Archives-Hash: 99d84c9e9a25e48bd05853195d6713f9 On 11/25/2015 12:10 PM, William Hubbs wrote: > All, > > I would like for us to discuss adding the sbin directories to PATH for > all users. > > The only thing that procps installs in /sbin is sysctl. Why? It works when run as a normal user, as long as you don't try to change something sacred. (In that regard, it's no different than, say, rm.)