From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from jazzband.ncsc.mil (jazzband.ncsc.mil [144.51.5.4]) by tycho.ncsc.mil (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA17013 for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 17:18:17 -0500 (EST) Received: from jazzband.ncsc.mil (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jazzband.ncsc.mil with ESMTP id WAA05703 for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 22:17:36 GMT Received: from mail.lemuria.org ([213.191.74.130]) by jazzband.ncsc.mil with ESMTP id WAA05699 for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 22:17:35 GMT Received: from unicorn.lemuria.org (b065224.adsl.hansenet.de [62.109.65.224]) by mail.lemuria.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8FCFBB7C for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 23:16:03 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 23:17:36 +0100 From: Tom To: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: SE Linux packages of login, sshd, tar, stat, findutils, fileutils, and [xkg]dm Message-ID: <20011130231736.A1680@lemuria.org> References: <1BF4DDD78DDA5D4EB0769BEA7F158E5A6F384C@amcw2ms812.amc.ds.af.mil> <20011130200644.BDF4535FC98@lyta.coker.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20011130200644.BDF4535FC98@lyta.coker.com.au>; from russell@coker.com.au on Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 08:13:14PM +0100 Sender: owner-selinux@tycho.nsa.gov List-Id: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 08:13:14PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote: > Yes. Sun is the only vendor I've come across that ships packages that mess > with /usr/local. They seem to think that a Sun package of bash for Solaris > 2.6 (distributed from a Sun web site) should install to /usr/local/bin while > a package for Solaris 8.0 (distributed on the install CDs) should be in /bin. > This sort of thing really sucks when you are trying to manage a network. OpenBSD also does this. bash is in /usr/local/bin even though it's not a port or a 3rd party piece, but an official package. I agree on that not being good practice. I don't know that rationale for these, though. -- http://web.lemuria.org/pubkey.html pub 1024D/D88D35A6 2001-11-14 Tom Vogt Key fingerprint = 276B B7BB E4D8 FCCE DB8F F965 310B 811A D88D 35A6 -- You have received this message because you are subscribed to the selinux list. If you no longer wish to subscribe, send mail to majordomo@tycho.nsa.gov with the words "unsubscribe selinux" without quotes as the message.