From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 27 9: 7: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDDFB15553 for ; Tue, 27 Apr 1999 09:06:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA86636; Tue, 27 Apr 1999 10:06:27 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id KAA00754; Tue, 27 Apr 1999 10:06:15 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199904271606.KAA00754@harmony.village.org> To: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" Subject: Re: Confusing location of md5 program Cc: Maxim Sobolev , current@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 27 Apr 1999 16:47:53 BST." References: Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 10:06:15 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message "Steve O'Hara-Smith" writes: : 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) ? /sbin is for "System binaries", which are traditionally linked static. since both system and static begin with 's' there has been much confusion over what, exactly, sbin means. The first part of this is in hier(7). Don't know why md5 is in /sbin vs /bin or /usr/sbin, to be honest. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message