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Subject: Re: Sysinstall - why two different programs in 5.3 RELEASE?
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Adam Fabian wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 07:12:04PM -0800, Jay O'Brien wrote:
> 
>>However, the FreeBSD Handbook says to type /stand/sysinstall:
>>I find the following files are present:
>>
>> 403488 Nov 4 17:27 /usr/sbin/sysinstall
>>2046148 Nov 4 20:22 /stand/sysinstall
>>
>>When I invoke these programs, the screens that come up are 
>>identical, and the functions seem to be the same. 
>>
>>Why are there two versions of sysinstall, one five times the 
>>size of the other, and what are the differences between them 
>>other than file size and time?
> 
> 
> Everything in /stand is statically linked, which means that corrupt
> libraries or libraries on an unavailable partition will not affect
> their operation.  That also means they're larger.  This could be
> useful if you bring the system up single-user and /usr, on a separate
> partition, is corrupt or destroyed.
> 
> afabian@turingmachine /home/afabian $ ldd /stand/sysinstall
> ldd: /stand/sysinstall: not a dynamic executable
> afabian@turingmachine /home/afabian $ ldd /usr/sbin/sysinstall
> /usr/sbin/sysinstall:
>         libdialog.so.4 => /usr/lib/libdialog.so.4 (0x280b9000)
>         libncurses.so.5 => /lib/libncurses.so.5 (0x280d2000)
>         libutil.so.4 => /lib/libutil.so.4 (0x28111000)
>         libftpio.so.5 => /usr/lib/libftpio.so.5 (0x2811d000)
>         libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5 (0x2812200

Adam, 

Thank you very much. That is a very clear explanation, and you exposed 
me to a new command, ldd. I'll also review the directory structure to 
better understand "/stand/". 

There's sure a lot to learn, but how can I go wrong with such a great 
support staff?

Regards, Jay