On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 02:54:22PM -0500, Frank Smith wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Wednesday 05 April 2006 11:18, Jon LaBadie wrote: > >> <anything>/"s"bin is supposed to contain programs of interest to > >> "systems accounts", not to ordinary users. Thus they would not > >> be in an ordinary users PATH by default because those users would > >> not look to execute them. > > > > So thats why its called Sbin. I always thought it was supposed to be > > Scriptbin in the *nix lingo. > > > > Originally sbin was static bin, i.e., programs that were statically > linked so as not to require share libraries that may or may not > exist if in single-user mode with no filesystems mounted besides /. > ... . For example, a Solaris 8 box here has a 7k > /bin/uname and also a 210k /sbin/uname.
And then to really add to confusion, my Solaris 9 system has lots of dynamically linked programs in /usr/sbin, but also has a directory called /usr/sbin/static !! -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)