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.
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Ken Smith
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