On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 09:53:47PM +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > >>>>> 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 Solaris was also the first *nix to adopt the /usr merge (/bin /sbin and /usr/sbin all are just links to /usr/bin), but that's a topic for another thread.
William
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