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Re: hdparm 6.9-1 will not function as expected


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.

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