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Date:      Thu, 10 Nov 2011 13:31:31 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>
Cc:        arch@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: The strangeness called `sbin'
Message-ID:  <12750.1320931891@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 10 Nov 2011 13:39:19 %2B0100." <20111110123919.GF2164@hoeg.nl>

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In message <20111110123919.GF2164@hoeg.nl>, Ed Schouten writes:

>Nowadays the rule of thumb behind `sbin' is that it contains
>applications that are normally only needed by system administrators, 

/sbin was for root in single user mode.

That /usr/sbin/materialized can only be described as a mistake.

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