>>>>> On Wed, 25 Nov 2015, William Hubbs wrote: >> > From what I've read, the traditional difference between bin and sbin >> > was that sbin means static-bin and everything stored in there was to >> > be able to come up without libraries. >> >> Source/reference for this? > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3519952
Hm, SunOS end of 1980s. Soon after (Solaris 2.0 ca. 1992) they switched to the current meaning and had executables in /usr/sbin "to be run only by system administrators": https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26505_01/html/816-5175/filesystem-5.html Anyway, whatever the history is, I guess we should go with the current FHS definition of sbin. Ulrich
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