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Date:      Sat, 29 Jul 1995 11:39:49 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
To:        roberto@blaise.ibp.fr (Ollivier Robert)
Cc:        ache@astral.msk.su, asami@cs.berkeley.edu, CVS-commiters@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-etc@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc inetd.conf
Message-ID:  <199507291839.LAA04384@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
In-Reply-To: <199507291800.UAA05310@blaise.ibp.fr> from "Ollivier Robert" at Jul 29, 95 08:00:18 pm

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> 
> > There is lots of daemons even in _standard_ system sbin.
> > Rest of world don't know anything about recent libexec BSDsm...
> 
> Daemons that are started by /etc/rc.local or by root are /*/sbin not in
> libexec. Daemons that are started by inetd are in */libexec.

Daemons that are run from the command line (or can be run from the command
line) go in /usr/src/sbin,  Daemons that are only started by other programs
go in /usr/libexec.  There is nothing about rc files or ``root'' in the
applicable criteria.

Please refer to ``man 7 hier'' when talking about such things:

	libexec/	system daemons & system utilities (executed by other
			programs)

	sbin/		system daemons & system utilities (executed by users)

Please do not make up your own rules, these things are defined in the sited
man page.  I have seen 3 wrong definations in todays mail :-(.

-- 
Rod Grimes                                      rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
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