Am Dienstag, 25. April 2006 20:11 schrieb ext Herman Grootaers: > The division is not so strange as it seems. In */sbin the binaries > placed are used by the systemuser root, that means the binaries can be > used by anyone. in */bin the binaries are under user-control that is > they are owned by the user who created the binary.
Neither /bin nor /usr/bin is under user control. They just contain tools
which can be used by unpriviledged users.
> In /sbin are
> therefore the general utilities which are necessary to boot the system,
> in /bin the rest of the utilities, in /usr and /opt are placed the
> programs which are installed by the user. The first one is for the
> standard applications, the latter is for the optional software,
> although some will install in /usr.
No, sorry, this is simply wrong. /sbin and /bin contain the things necessary
at boot time, /sbin should only be relevant to root, while /bin contains
things which can be _used_ by anyone. /usr/bin and /usr/sbin contains
things which are not anymore relevant for booting (read: to mount other
filesystems). However, the distinction between /usr/bin and /usr/sbin is
the same as for /bin and /sbin.
Bye...
Dirk
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