On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 12:59:47PM -0800, Peter Wemm wrote: > It is 'system' binaries. The distinction between bin and sbin (and /usr/ > bin and /usr/sbin) is that the binaries in */sbin are only really supposed > to be useful for administrators or other priviliged users. Yup, this distinction was in place long before shared libraries came along but not in its current form. You can only consider yourself a true UNIX dinosaur if at some point you changed your path to replace "/usr/etc /etc" with "/usr/sbin /sbin". /etc was where they lived at first. -- Ken Smith - From there to here, from here to | kensmith_at_cse.buffalo.edu there, funny things are everywhere. | - Theodore Geisel |Received on Mon Nov 17 2003 - 12:31:50 UTC
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