From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 27 9: 4: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from misha.cisco.com (misha.cisco.com [171.69.206.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D2BA15553 for ; Tue, 27 Apr 1999 09:03:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mi@misha.cisco.com) Received: (from mi@localhost) by misha.cisco.com (8.9.2/8.9.1) id MAA18063 for current@freebsd.org; Tue, 27 Apr 1999 12:03:57 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mi) Message-Id: <199904271603.MAA18063@misha.cisco.com> Subject: Re: Confusing location of md5 program In-Reply-To: from "Steve O'Hara-Smith" at "Apr 27, 1999 04:47:53 pm" To: current@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 12:03:57 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: mi@aldan.algebra.com From: mi@aldan.algebra.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL52 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Steve O'Hara-Smith once wrote: > 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) ? There is no /lib on FreeBSD and none of the /bin/* (except for rmail) is dynamicly linked. Both of this things are quite easy to find out without any documentation, BTW :-) -mi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message