Wojciech Florek wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, Brian Beesley wrote:
>
>
>>On Tuesday 10 July 2007 18:42, Wojciech Florek wrote:
>>
I 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'.
So do I. I wasn't trying to make anything like a primer for
UNIX like OS maintainers. I was talking to a novice.
Mike
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