Parcelfarce is a 7.1 box upgraded to 7.2 I've also verified the SAME on a fresh 7.2 box [root@parcelfarce /root]# rpm -qf /root/.bash_profile rootfiles-7.0-4 [root@parcelfarce /root]# cat /root/.bash_profile ... PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:$PATH:$HOME/bin ... HUMMM [root@parcelfarce /root]# rpm -qf /root/.cshrc rootfiles-7.0-4 [root@parcelfarce /root]# cat /root/.cshrc setenv PATH "/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:${PATH}:${HOME}/bin" Erm ,well whats in there by default? [root@parcelfarce /root]# ls /usr/local/sbin [root@parcelfarce /root]# Answer nothing. So why is it being added at the FRONT of the the path statement? In fact, why is it being added at all?
Since /usr/local/bin is added for normal users, /usr/local/sbin is added for consistency for root users.