Re: Preparing new distribution...

[Axel Kielhorn <A.Kielhorn@tu-bs.de>]

At 14:41 Uhr +0100 25.02.1998, Maurits van de Kamp wrote:
>On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Thomas Binder wrote:

>> There are some system which put a lot of
>> binaries into /etc (e.g. ping on HP-UX).
>
>brrr... is it that bad?

Yes.
I have /etc in my path but that is not the default for a regular user.
Every time someone comes and askes for help because he has a network
problem (netscape not working or something like that) I go to his machine
and try to ping some importand servers in out network. And everytime I
forget the "/etc/".

Since a normal User only needs netscape in his path, there is no reason for
including /etc in the standard path. (And I do not have the rights to set
it. Convincing somone with sufficient right would take at least a week.)

Axel,
who is looking forward to HP-UX 10 that will be installed on our computing
center machines over the next months.

Axel Kielhorn