[ale] Get host's IP address as an unprivileged user?

[Derek Atkins]

James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com> writes:

> No real reason other just not wanting to.

Ah, so just being stubborn instead of some real technical reason.
Gotcha!  ;-)

Personally I see very little reason for some of the separation between
/bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, and /usr/sbin.  And there's no point to *not*
have the sbin variants in the default path...  And there's no point in
not adding those paths when they aren't there.

Moreover, there are lots of good reasons to explicitly call a program
with an absolute path, because sometimes you can have the same program
in multiple places in your path and you want to make sure you get the
right one.  (This *has* happened to me before, because e.g. "mock" is in
/usr/bin *and* /usr/sbin -- so PATH order does matter).

-derek

> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
>> James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> I don't want to absolutely reference anything in the script or add
>>> /sbin to the PATH. I was hoping someone knew of an even simpler trick
>>> than the one I devised, really.
>>
>> Um, okay.   Why not?  What's wrong with editing the path or referencing
>> /sbin directly?
>>
>> -derek

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