[Clfs-support] mktemp question

[Joe Ciccone]

Michael A. Peters wrote:
> First - congrats on the final release of the book :)
>
> I have a question though on mktemp - not really sure it belongs here,
> but ...
>
> Following the instructions in the book, mktemp gets installed in /usr/bin
>
> A lot of (or at least some) scripts (IE log rotate scripts that go in
> /etc/logrotate.d/) assume it is installed in /bin and the only
> libraries it uses are in /lib64 (or /lib) so it could go in theory go
> in /bin.
>
> Is there a "standard" install location for that binary that one can
> generally expect, or is there not really a standard install location
> for mktemp?
>From what I understand, mktemp has always been put in /usr/bin. Not that
I'm against put it in /bin. I'll put it wherever it's better suited.