HEADS UP: /bin and /sbin are now dynamically linked

[Ken Smith]

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.

-- 
						Ken Smith
- From there to here, from here to      |       kensmith at cse.buffalo.edu
  there, funny things are everywhere.   |
                      - Theodore Geisel |