Once upon a time, Richard W.M. Jones <rjo...@redhat.com> said: > Having said that, the split between /sbin and /bin is not a truly > historical one, ie. it didn't exist in V7. I think it was added by > System V which did a lot of other strange stuff too.
Well, historically, a bunch of system utilities were in odd places like /etc and /usr/lib. The idea of /sbin and /usr/sbin was to get compiled executables out of those places (and to not clutter up the "normal" bin directories with stuff users didn't need). -- Chris Adams <cmad...@hiwaay.net> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
