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Asked: 2026-05-20T11:56:00+00:00

Commonly on most unix systems there is a distinction between $PREFIX/bin and $PREFIX/sbin .

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Commonly on most unix systems there is a distinction between $PREFIX/bin and $PREFIX/sbin. When installing a piece of software the administrator decides about what $PREFIX is, but the author decides which programs are suitable for regular users and which are not. With Python’s distutils a set of scripts can be defined and they are installed to $PREFIX/bin. So how to install a script to the corresponding sbin directory?

Note that in this case solutions targeting only Linux are welcome, because other parts of the software in question depend on iptables.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can specify where files should be installed in the data_files parameter. It should work putting ‘/sbin’ in the directory specification:

    setup(...,
      data_files=[('/sbin', ['rootfill']),
                  ('/etc/init.d', ['init-script'])]
     )
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