Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 20:21:04 -0500 (EST) From: Andriss <andriss@argate.com> To: Studded <Studded@dal.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin, sbin, another bin... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980902201649.11289A-100000@tasam.com> In-Reply-To: <35EDC289.F17CAAEF@dal.net>
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> Read 'man hier' it will answer a lot of your questions. :) Part of the >logic is that if you give users access to certain filesystems (say, on >/usr) and they hose them up, the sysadmin can use the tools in /bin and >/sbin to repair the damage because users have no write access to those >areas, therefore they cannot muck them up. :) > >Welcome to unix, Thank you > >Doug (which is not an acronym BTW, so unix or Unix is correct, UNIX is >not) Hey Doug, Remember that bell labs license plate pic? the uh.. greenish one? Well, sure as I don't know what, it said UNIX on it ;-) The question at hand: Who was the original `inventor' and what flavour was it? Also, when did it split onto System V, BSD and all the other numerous unixes? I hope this belongs to this list :-) (sorry if not) Later, Andriss To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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