On February 11, 2001 08:57 am, Steven T. Hatton wrote:
I find one of the worst aspects of managing any OS is trying to figure out who finds what resource where. For example I just spent about an hour trying to figure out why I don't get a color coded ls in the konsole shell when logged in as root. Works fine for any other user, and works when I ssh into another box from the konsole. This problem is actually trickier than many such problems.
Problems can often arise when we install or remove software from a system. We may inadvertantly remove, overwrite or mask a file or setting used by another application. There is a long-standing tradition of dumping things in common locations such as /usr/bin, /usr/lib /usr/X11R6/bin etc. This is generally a bad thing.
/usr/local/bin is really the right place to put locally installed things. Or user installed things go to $HOME/bin. IMHO. with /usr/local/bin coming before /usr/bin or /bin in the PATH. But I'm too tired to think right now-) Nick