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to: ALAN IANSON
from: TONY LANGDON
date: 2018-02-20 06:53:00
subject: Re: Installing binkd on L

-=> Alan Ianson wrote to Martin Foster <=-

 AI> By default binkd is placed in /usr/local/sbin, so if you have adjusted
 AI> your prefix it may be in /usr/sbin.

 AI> That location is not (normaly) on your path. I just invoke binkd like
 AI> /usr/local/sbin/binkd ... but you could simply copy it to a location on
 AI> your path like /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin if you want it in your path.

For me, a non issue, I normally only call binkd from scripts, either the ones
that start and monitor it, or scripts like "poll", which setup manual polls for
nodes.  As I said previously, I prefer the default location (/usr/local/sbin),
as it is more in line with Linux standards.

I wouldn't copy binkd.  If you need to be able to reference it elsewhere in the
filesystem, use a symlink.  That way, you don't have multiple copies floating
around (confusion when upgrading).

ln -s /usr/local/sbin/binkd /usr/bin/binkd


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