From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 2 09:07:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA13985 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 09:07:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tasam.com (tasam.com [198.232.144.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA13967 for ; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 09:07:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andriss@argate.com) Received: from localhost (andriss@localhost) by tasam.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id MAA21550 for ; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 12:06:25 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 11:06:25 -0500 (EST) From: Andriss X-Sender: andriss@tasam.com To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: bin, sbin, another bin... Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello everyone, I installed 2.2.7-release, and everything seems working fine, though I have a question about the directories where all binaries are put in. >From what I understand there are these dirs: /bin /sbin /usr/bin /usr/sbin /usr/local/bin /usr/local/sbin My question is, why so many? what is the reason for keeping all these dirs, instead of, say, one? Is it because /bin and /usr/bin are on different slices, so that /bin sits on root slice? If so, what is /sbin? I know this is not a real practical question, but I just want to see the logic of file placement in UNIX. Thanks you, Andriss P.S. oh, yes, there is also /usr/X11R6/bin, but it's understandable that only X files are put there. ________________________________________ Andriss@ArGate.com http://ArGate.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message