Hi Russell,

Russell Coker wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 20:49, petre rodan <kaiowas@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
>>this is a new diff with distro_gentoo ifdefs dropped.
>>also, logrotate is not part of the gentoo base-policy and it shouldn't be a
>>dependency for ntpd, so I'm also ifdef-ing that.
> 
> 
> Having daemon binaries in /usr/bin instead of /usr/sbin is a bug.
> 
> ntpd and ntpdate can not be used by regular users, they can only be used by 
> the administrator.  Therefore any distribution that follows the LSB (or the 
> FHS which the LSB is based on) will put them in /usr/sbin.

You are correct. I have sent patches to gentoo bugzilla and upstream.
Let's hope at least one of those will like the idea.

bye,
peter

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petre rodan
<kaiowas@gentoo.org>
Developer,
Hardened Gentoo Linux