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Date:      Mon, 9 Oct 2000 12:00:21 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Matthew Cerha <mcerha@io.com>
To:        James A Wilde <james.wilde@tbv.se>
Cc:        Send to questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Self-contained binaries
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.21.0010091153070.2260-100000@fnord.io.com>
In-Reply-To: <NEBBLHNJHLFCJGCBFDKIOEMPCAAA.james.wilde@tbv.se>

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> I seem to remember reading somewhere - could it be the Red Book? - that the
> programs in /bin were self-contained, that is compiled without external
> libraries, so that one could run them in single user mode before /usr was
> mounted.  However, I discovered to my dismay that this definitely is not the
> case on Solaris.  Is it so in FreeBSD?

The binaries for Solaris are in /sbin. /bin under Solaris is really a
symlink to /usr/bin. FreeBSD has static binaries in /bin and /sbin. Single
user mode on a Solaris system is quite unusable for anything other than
partitioning your drives in my experience.

--mtc



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