Subject: Re: bind/named and nslookup
To: Greg A. Woods <woods@most.weird.com>
From: Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 02/21/1999 17:11:49
On Fri, Feb 19, 1999 at 12:24:42PM -0500, Greg A. Woods wrote:
>[ On , February 19, 1999 at 06:35:26 (-0800), Michael Graff wrote: ]
>> Subject: Re: bind/named and nslookup
>>
>> woods@most.weird.com (Greg A. Woods) writes:
>> >
>> > I think nslookup (and host) should be in /usr/bin, not /usr/sbin.
>>
>> And dig. And traceroute. And ping in /sbin is annoying. :)
>
>I dislike "dig" so much I don't much care where it goes, just as long as
>it does [go away]! ;-)
that's funny...i bet you prefer nslookup, eh? nslookup is nasty evil
and blecherous. and does things that it doesn't mention (like
following cnames) that dig doesn't do. no...dig is much nicer. :P
>So I guess that all boils down to mean one of two things -- either I
>should just cave in and add /sbin:/usr/sbin to my PATH, or that I'd be
>really happy if anyone did do something about moving at least these
>programs into a normal user's PATH.
set path=({,/usr{,/pkg,/local}}/sbin {,/usr{,/pkg,/local,/X11R6}}/bin /usr/games)
or
set path=(`find / -type d -print`)
if only X11R6 had an sbin directory... :-]
--
|-----< "CODE WARRIOR" >-----|
codewarrior@daemon.org * "ah! i see you have the internet
twofsonet@graffiti.com (Andrew Brown) that goes *ping*!"
andrew@crossbar.com * "information is power -- share the wealth."