On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, David Crawshaw wrote:

> On 10/08/2005, at 5:56 PM, Paul de Weerd wrote:
> > While building an (unsupported, i know) stripped down install, I
> > noticed that the larger binaries in /usr/sbin are all from BIND :
> 
> > -r-xr-xr-x   1 root  bin      1015716 May 22 10:11 dnssec-signzone
> 
> Files are the same size in my GENERIC 3.7 install. It's because they're
> statically linked (hence sbin not bin) to libcrypto.

Wrong. Check ldd dnssec-signzone on OpenBSD. It's dynamically liked against
libcrypto and libc. It's living in /usr/sbin, after all, not /sbin

> I just checked my debian-3.1 system, and it looks to me (I could be wrong),
> that /usr/sbin/dnssec-signzone, etc are DYNAMICALLY linked. What they're doing
> in sbin is a mystery to me, but that's why I run openbsd.
> 
> Hint: ldd /usr/sbin/dnssec-signzone

It seems you are just confused.

        -Otto

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