On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, Brian Beesley wrote: > On Tuesday 10 July 2007 18:42, Wojciech Florek wrote: >>> >>> $ which acroread >>> /usr/bin/acroread >>> >>> $ ls -l /usr/bin/acroread >>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 40 Jul 12 2006 /usr/bin/acroread -> >>> usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/bin/acroread >> >> It is done in order not to mess a "local" binary with system binaries >> placed (mainly) in /usr/bin. > > Umm. In actuality system utility binaries are _not_ in /usr/bin, they're > in /usr/sbin unless they're needed in system maintainance mode in which case > look in /sbin (the separation is done to make the file system which _has_ to > be mounted as small as possible) > > /bin and /usr/bin as opposed to /sbin and /usr/sbin are for utilities likely > to be used by all users. > > acroread would be a non-linux program so (assuming all users are to be able to > exec it) it should be in /usr/local/bin
Hi! I meant linux binaries like `host', `who' etc. available for _all_ users. I know the role of /sbin like `fsck' or 'crond'. Regards Wojtek _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list [email protected] http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
