[SOLVED] Where in path to keep my custom bash scripts

Hey Guys,
I apologize if this has been discussed before, I couldn't find another similar discussion in the forum.
Having followed from another discussion I had on arch before, I finally switched from being root to a regular user. However, there is this one little problem that I have now.
Earlier I used to stick my custom scripts in /usr/bin using symlinks. However, now, I clearly can not call these scripts from /usr/bin being a regular user. I have presently solved this problem by adding a "$HOME"/scripts folder to the path and calling my scripts from there. Everything has been tweaked to work again.
But I'd like to know if there is a robust solution to this problem. Where should one, say a sysadmin, keep custom scripts if he'd like users to be able to use them? And what should be safe permissions on these scripts?
Thanks for all suggestions.
Last edited by Dumbledore (2011-09-26 16:28:31)

Umm.. Err.. I feel like a nitwit right now! I can swear that I had tested putting my scripts in /usr/bin earlier and calling the scripts had resulted in Permission Errors even though I had checked for _execute_ permissions then.
So I had removed those scripts from there. Now, since you asked for output, I tried putting a few scripts there again and funnily they are working now!!! Anyhoo, be that as it may, I'll check all of them and get back to this post if I find any other problem.
Meanwhile, I'm sure that Unix has a design philosophy which divides these directories with specific intentions. So, is /usr/bin a good place to keep one's custom scripts in principle?

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