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Article #623829Re: First use of /sbin in Unix?
From: Grant Taylor
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2018 03:15
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2018 03:15
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On 06/06/2018 01:37 PM, Jorgen Grahn wrote: > I'm happy I don't see a lot of software installed under /opt anymore. > That was a pain: often as a user I had to add /opt/$foo/bin to my $PATH, > for each piece of software $foo I was interested in. And quite often > such software needed other environment variables like $FOO_PATH too, > or it would malfunction. I always disliked /opt too. As for the PATH environment variable, I tended to leave it close to the default. I would actually add sym-links from /usr/bin to /opt/$FOO/bin/*. -- Grant. . . . unix || die
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