The strangeness called `sbin'

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20111110123919.GF2164 at hoeg.nl>, Ed Schouten writes:

>Nowadays the rule of thumb behind `sbin' is that it contains
>applications that are normally only needed by system administrators, 

/sbin was for root in single user mode.

That /usr/sbin/materialized can only be described as a mistake.

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