[BusyBox] location of pidof

[Peter Willis]

Slackware 10.0:

psypete at meatwad:~$ whereis pidof
pidof: /sbin/pidof /usr/man/man8/pidof.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8/pidof.8.gz

 From the pidof man page:

NOTES
       pidof is simply a (symbolic) link to the killall5 program,
       which should also be located in /sbin.


So according to the sysvinit package's pidof program, it's supposed to 
go in /sbin/. However logic dictates it go in /bin/ as it's useful to 
users and does not require superuser privs to work. In either case, put 
both /bin and /sbin in your PATH and it'll work regardless.

Brian T wrote:

> I know it's true on Redhat systems, and also the older version of 
> busybox; but shouldn't "pidof" be installed in /sbin/ instead of /bin/ ? 
>  
> -Brian
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