Locations of POSIX.2c binaries?

[Peter J . Holzer]

On 2001-03-21 08:51:04 -0800, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote:
> There are some binaries, e.g. su(1), that live in /bin on Solaris and 
> /usr/bin in FreeBSD.  The proper place for them is in /usr/bin, however 
> Solaris uses /bin/su to prompt the user for a password just before 
> starting an interactive shell in single user state. 

At least in Solaris 2.7, /bin is actually symlink to /usr/bin, so the
question "/bin or /usr/bin" is moot for Solaris. All the binaries needed
in single-user mode are in /sbin.

HP-UX (starting with 10.x) behaves the same. 

	hp

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