hdparm 6.9-1 will not function as expected

Sean Murphy s.pat.murph@gmail.com
Thu Oct 4 13:11:00 GMT 2012


On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Earnie Boyd  wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 7:30 AM, Sean Murphy wrote:
>>
>> That did it.  Placed the executable in /bin, and it ran as expected.
>>
>
> You should not move /usr/sbin files to /bin.  You should use
> /usr/sbin/BINARY or add /usr/sbin to the PATH variable.  You'll get
> confused when an update seemingly replaces /usr/sbin/BINARY but you're
> still using /bin/BINARY which is now older than /usr/sbin/BINARY.
>
> --
> Earnie

Noted.

Thank you, Earnie.

-Sean

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