On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 06:43:12PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously George Kraft IV wrote: > > The thought was that some applications (and/or shell scripts) > > could/would fail if root.root, bin.bin, and daemon.daemon did not > > exist on a system > > That doesn't answer my question though. There is no (documented or > otherwise) reason for bin and daemon existing. Nobody seems to know > what to use them for and I haven't ever seen anything that uses them.
Actually, on my debian unstable system here: daemon 111 0.0 0.3 1416 464 ? S 08:21 0:00 /sbin/portmap daemon 290 0.0 0.4 1420 608 ? S 08:21 0:00 /usr/sbin/atd So they are used and we can't summarily remove them. These could be shunted to another user, but which one? They *are* daemons. -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[email protected]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > If the company that invents a cure for AIDS is expected to make their > money back in 17 years, why can't we ask the same of the company that > markets big-titted lip-syncing chicks and goddamn cartoon mice?
