From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 27 10:15:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail-gw1adm.rcsntx.swbell.net (mail-gw1.rcsntx.swbell.net [151.164.30.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE7C91547D for ; Tue, 27 Apr 1999 10:15:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@holly.dyndns.org) Received: from holly.dyndns.org (ppp-207-193-13-53.hstntx.swbell.net [207.193.13.53]) by mail-gw1adm.rcsntx.swbell.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA21282; Tue, 27 Apr 1999 12:15:43 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from chris@localhost) by holly.dyndns.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA11239; Tue, 27 Apr 1999 12:16:22 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from chris) Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 12:16:21 -0500 From: Chris Costello To: Warner Losh Cc: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" , Maxim Sobolev , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Confusing location of md5 program Message-ID: <19990427121619.B9324@holly.dyndns.org> Reply-To: chris@calldei.com References: <199904271606.KAA00754@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="J/dobhs11T7y2rNN"; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature" User-Agent: Mutt/0.96.1i In-Reply-To: <199904271606.KAA00754@harmony.village.org>; from Warner Losh on Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 10:06:15AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --J/dobhs11T7y2rNN Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Apr 27, 1999, Warner Losh wrote: > In message "Steve O'Hara-Smith" write= s: > : I had always understood that sbin meant static binaries (ie: > : those that could be used even when /lib is hosed) and should contain > : the vital binaries for such situations. I have just failed to locate > : the documentation that has left me believing this so could somebody > : confirm (or deny) ? >=20 > /sbin is for "System binaries", which are traditionally linked static. > since both system and static begin with 's' there has been much > confusion over what, exactly, sbin means. The first part of this is > in hier(7). My god, that man page is horrible! I'll fix it up. >=20 > Don't know why md5 is in /sbin vs /bin or /usr/sbin, to be honest. >=20 > Warner >=20 >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message >=20 --=20 Chris Costello How was Thomas J. Watson buried? 9 edge down. --J/dobhs11T7y2rNN Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQB1AwUBNyXw4rfyXY/Dmk2NAQFzpgL/V+Y65QHDauCEtyGumA+005L9NVGnBFro s2UQhnF0E75kV3pLk7+pSJsArl7cXYAVrxjWBTDW+C5swM+NypztrcNLissx+oot cr494FqreGevKh8YPpWv2fr9hYVx10cJ =+NH5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --J/dobhs11T7y2rNN-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message