Charles Debardeleben wrote:
> I am wondering where our guidance for where items should live in the
> namespace is.
> I had a personal idea related to /sbin, which I was sure of, but was
> told by several
> older and wiser PSARC members that my understanding was incorrect
/sbin (on Solaris/SVr4) is pretty special. Its only stuff that you need
to mount /usr. We *still* support diskless and dataless machines.
Now, after all this discussion about how accessible linux is, why does
linux have
/bin and /usr/bin?
> Older UNIX,
> and current FreeBSD have a manpage named HIER(7) that documented what one
> could expect where. Did Solaris lose this concept, or do I just not
> know where to find it?
> My opinion is that a document like HIER(7) should be used to guide
> what you put in
> a modified $PATH, rather than /etc/profile. To me /etc/profile should
> be a minimal default,
> HIER(7) indicates what type of applications to expect where, and your
> personal $PATH
> defines what you personally want to be "found" without explicitly
> specifying the entire path,
> and which function you want in case of conflicting names. The value of
> explicit paths
> for questionable directories should not be undervalued, as I found out
> when I had "."
> in my $PATH and had my $CWD be a bin of a "creative" Caltech student.
> I have never had "."
> in my path since, and tend to shy away from /usr/local/bin, and /opt
> for similar reasons.
> As for /usr/games. I actually think that having "entertainment"
> software there makes good since
> so that users do not think that "nethack" is some kind of network
> utility, and that you may want
> to be worried about a program called "crash" that is not in an
> expected place.
See filesystem(5).
Speaking of /sbin (from filesystem(5))...
/sbin
Essential executables used in the booting process and in
manual system recovery. The full complement of utilities
is available only after /usr is mounted. /sbin is an
approved installation location for bundled Solaris
software.
This man page needs *a lot* of help. Its not the concept we've lost,
but the will to make this
a quality presentation.
/etc/sfw/samba
Samba configuration files.
Well, that was helpful....
- jek3
