Subject: Re: Comments on Draft 2

From: [email-masked] (Frank Volf)
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 92 10:23:32 +0100

Hi,

You [email-masked] (Michael K. Johnson) wrote:

>   1)  I am a little unhappy about having init in /bin, since no
>       user -- not even root -- needs to access it.  Should this
>       be in lib?
>
>I don't think that we want any executables in /lib.  if you don't want
>it in bin, you could put it in /etc, but we are trying to keep
>executables out of /etc in the standard, if I recall corectly.  So
             ^^^^^^^^^^^

Why??? I always thought most of the man (8) commands should be in 
/etc (or /usr/etc). At least at our site it does.
I think it is not a good idea to have any commands in /bin which
are not intended for ordinary users. These commands include 
mknod, mkswap, fsck, mount, umount and other stuff we don't have yet
(reboot, lpc for example).

I think that all those commands intended for system administration (and
not useful for the other users) should go into /etc or /usr/etc. Ordinary 
users should not have /etc in their search path (although we can't prevent
them from doing so). Root should have /etc in the very beginning of its
search path.
  
Init should not be in /bin. It is not an executable in the sense it can
be run by any user (including root). /etc/init would be a good idea (at
our side it is). If /etc/init is a very big problem (which isn't I think)
it should go to /lib (there are executables in /usr/lib (for example atrun,
cpp etc.) so why not in /lib??? (although the best place is /etc)

                  Best regards, Frank
 
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From: [email-masked] (Michael K. Johnson)
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 92 17:24:01 CST

I, [email-masked], said
   >executables out of /etc in the standard, if I recall corectly.  So
		^^^^^^^^^^^
disengage brain, engage fingers....   BEEP BEEP BEEP wrong.  thanks
for corrections...

michaelkjohnson
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I don't do .sig's.