From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 2 18:22:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA14411 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 18:22:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tasam.com (tasam.com [198.232.144.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA14406 for ; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 18:22:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andriss@argate.com) Received: from localhost (andriss@localhost) by tasam.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id VAA12496; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 21:21:04 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 20:21:04 -0500 (EST) From: Andriss X-Sender: andriss@tasam.com To: Studded cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin, sbin, another bin... In-Reply-To: <35EDC289.F17CAAEF@dal.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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