On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 02:54:22PM -0500, Frank Smith wrote:
> Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Wednesday 05 April 2006 11:18, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> >> <anything>/"s"bin is supposed to contain programs of interest to
> >> "systems accounts", not to ordinary users.  Thus they would not
> >> be in an ordinary users PATH by default because those users would
> >> not look to execute them.
> > 
> > So thats why its called Sbin.  I always thought it was supposed to be 
> > Scriptbin in the *nix lingo.
> > 
> 
> Originally sbin was static bin, i.e., programs that were statically
> linked so as not to require share libraries that may or may not
> exist if in single-user mode with no filesystems mounted besides /.
> ... .  For example, a Solaris 8 box here has a 7k
> /bin/uname and also a 210k /sbin/uname.


And then to really add to confusion, my Solaris 9 system
has lots of dynamically linked programs in /usr/sbin,
but also has a directory called /usr/sbin/static !!

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