From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 7 21:20:56 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D82AC16A41F for ; Sat, 7 Jul 2007 21:20:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jeffrey@goldmark.org) Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com (out2.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.26]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABE6B13C469 for ; Sat, 7 Jul 2007 21:20:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jeffrey@goldmark.org) Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.internal [10.202.2.42]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60091764D; Sat, 7 Jul 2007 17:20:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Sat, 07 Jul 2007 17:20:55 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: 2s8KOouSe0Q6TsvpotViaKkUSOUalWuD3JxI7BX7aDcQ 1183843254 Received: from [10.1.10.136] (n114.ewd.goldmark.org [72.64.118.114]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D14692FC; Sat, 7 Jul 2007 17:20:54 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <468FC261.3070902@boosten.org> References: <003b01c7c0b4$e01a3a50$d5b9bfcf@lisac> <468FC261.3070902@boosten.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <58D9945E-1560-45A7-A946-D907C3809562@goldmark.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Jeffrey Goldberg Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 16:20:53 -0500 To: Peter Boosten X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Adding a new command X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2007 21:20:56 -0000 On Jul 7, 2007, at 11:42 AM, Peter Boosten wrote: > It's more obvious to put local scripts in /usr/local/bin, IMHO. Let me add to this (as someone who recently moved from linux to FreeBSD). Unlike Linux, FreeBSD isn't just a kernel, but a complete operating system. So the things in /bin and /usr/bin are as fully part of FreeBSD as the kernel itself, while on Linux distributions, those things are bundled with Linux as part of a distribution. So this is one reason why it is best to put tools like you describe in /usr/local/sbin Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberg http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/