system admin scripts

[KathyK]

Where is the best location to place the scripts developed by system admin. some might be run from crontab, some manually.

thank you in advance.

OS: HP-UX11.23

Kathy

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi KathyL

A collection posted on this Forum can be found here:

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=51050

The author's opening remarks point to two previous threads of the same.

Regards!

...JRF...

[KathyK]

Thank you James, that's great:)
but i meant the scripts that I have developed on my system, which directory is the best place to put them? is it
/usr/local/bin?

thanks agian
Kathy

[Dennis Handly]

The location is wherever you can remember them and that make logical sense.
If run manually, you would have to use absolute paths or you would have to add that to your PATH.
Do any of these have to run in single user mode?

[KathyK]

No nothing at single run level. they are cleaning scripts some ftp scripts and some backup scripts. I thought there a standard practice in place for crontab and where the scripts are placed. no?

[Doug O'Leary · Accepted solution]

Hey;

There are no hard and fast rules. I usually like /usr/local/bin for scripts that normal users will have to run, /usr/local/sbin for scripts that root and other administrative accounts have to run, and /root/bin for scripts that *only* root should be running.

That's my standard though; your mileage may vary.

Doug O'Leary

[Torsten.]

No, not really.

I prefer to create a "special" directory used for root's home, e.g. /root directly in / . So it is available in any mode and I'm not at the top of the directory tree by default.

[KathyK]

Thank you everyone for your response.
Kathy

[Arturo Galbiati]

Hi Kathy,
I put the scripts under my personal login (on /local/bin, /local/sbin) to allply them the version control by RCS.
Once ok I move them in /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/sbin
HTH,
Art

[Sameer Kelkar]

Hello
Check /usr/lib/cron/cron.allow
Make sure entry for root & other users is there.