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>>>>> On Wed, 25 Nov 2015, William Hubbs wrote: |
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>> > From what I've read, the traditional difference between bin and sbin |
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>> > was that sbin means static-bin and everything stored in there was to |
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>> > be able to come up without libraries. |
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>> Source/reference for this? |
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> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3519952 |
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Hm, SunOS end of 1980s. Soon after (Solaris 2.0 ca. 1992) they |
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switched to the current meaning and had executables in /usr/sbin |
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"to be run only by system administrators": |
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https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26505_01/html/816-5175/filesystem-5.html |
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Anyway, whatever the history is, I guess we should go with the current |
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FHS definition of sbin. |
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Ulrich |
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