From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 27 8:55: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from voyage.coolfitch.ie (pooh.elsevier.nl [145.36.9.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4CD714E13 for ; Tue, 27 Apr 1999 08:54:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from steveo@iol.ie) Received: from voyage.coolfitch.ie (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by voyage.coolfitch.ie (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id QAA12443; Tue, 27 Apr 1999 16:47:53 +0100 (IST) (envelope-from steveo@iol.ie) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3725DA26.4BAB3A2B@altavista.net> Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 16:47:53 +0100 (IST) From: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" To: Maxim Sobolev Subject: Re: Confusing location of md5 program Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 27-Apr-99 Maxim Sobolev wrote: >> At a guess, it is there to ensure that when you boot single user, >> and >> have only /, you can still verify the integrety of other files... > > Why not to put it in /bin? I had always understood that sbin meant static binaries (ie: those that could be used even when /lib is hosed) and should contain the vital binaries for such situations. I have just failed to locate the documentation that has left me believing this so could somebody confirm (or deny) ? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message