Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 16:31:46 -0500 From: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: /bin and /sbin are now dynamically linked Message-ID: <20031117213146.GC4138@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> In-Reply-To: <20031117205947.D3C742A8EB@canning.wemm.org> References: <3FB90579.8050204@myrealbox.com> <20031117205947.D3C742A8EB@canning.wemm.org>
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On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 12:59:47PM -0800, Peter Wemm wrote:
> It is 'system' binaries. The distinction between bin and sbin (and /usr/
> bin and /usr/sbin) is that the binaries in */sbin are only really supposed
> to be useful for administrators or other priviliged users.
Yup, this distinction was in place long before shared libraries came
along but not in its current form. You can only consider yourself a
true UNIX dinosaur if at some point you changed your path to replace
"/usr/etc /etc" with "/usr/sbin /sbin". /etc was where they lived
at first.
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Ken Smith
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