Ken Smith wrote: > 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. *Everbody* knows that ifconfig belongs in /etc/ifconfig :-) On my SVR4 system (past life), /bin was a symlink to /usr/bin and /sbin was a symlink to /usr/sbin. /usr was on /. Things were simpler. I say we ditch this silly /usr thing and put it all in /bin + /lib and be done with it. :-) Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter_at_wemm.org; peter_at_FreeBSD.org; peter_at_yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5Received on Mon Nov 17 2003 - 19:27:37 UTC
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