On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 04:31:52PM -0500, Aaron Hall wrote: > On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Joey Hess wrote: > > > bin: > > > > HELP: No files on my system are owned by user or group bin. What > > good are they? Historically they were probably the owners of > > binaries in /bin? It is not mentioned in the FHS, debian > > policy, or the changelogs of base-passwd or base-files. > > I can confirm that on Solaris 2.5, bin is the owner and group of most > files in /bin, /usr/bin, et al. I don't go back all that far in unix, so > I don't know why that is.
I can confirm the same for AIX 4.3.3 Regards Javi