>From my intuition, I always thought /bin was for distro binaries, /sbin was for setuid distro binaries, /usr/bin for your own package binaries, /usr/sbin for your own package setuid binaries.
Curious to know what you all thought. Regards, Daniel From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of joseph mpora Sent: 31 January 2012 02:47 PM To: Linux Users Group Uganda Subject: [LUG] Understanding the /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin Split Finally something really interesting to talk about. If you've used UNIX or any of its derivatives, you've probably wondered why there's /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin in the file system. You may even have a rationalisation for the existence of each and every one of these directories. The thing is, though - all these rationalisations were thought up after these directories were created. As it turns out, the real reasoning is pretty damn straightforward. http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2010-December/074114.html
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