On Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 12:00:28PM +0900, itojun@iijlab.net wrote:
> 
> >> Log Message:
> >> move sysctl to /sbin/sysctl.  symlink from /usr/sbin/sysctl
> >> is supplied for backward compatibility.
> >I don't think that symlink should be made. We haven't done this in the
> >past. (Rather, add /usr/sbin/sysctl to the "obsoleted"(?) list)
> 
> 	I did not want to see breakage in user scripts.  I can remove
> 	symlink if many people thinks it better to.

If something stays in /usr/sbin, could it at least be a script
that prints an "...Is Deprecated..." message to STDERR
(And either passes its args to /sbin/sysctl, or not) rather than
a symlink? Then at least people will fix their scripts.

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