On Mon, Feb 22, 1999 at 03:45:43AM -0800, George Bonser wrote: > On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, Joseph Carter wrote: > > > > Sbin is for system run binaries, daemons, etc. This sounds appropriate > > > here. > > > > sbin is for STATIC binaries. For some reason none of the Linux dists > > (unless slackware does and the knghtbrd package has a memleak) actually > > use it as designed. > > > > Uhm, I have always been taught that sbin is for things used by superuser. > Things the sysadmin or system needs but that you want out of the general > user's path.
That is the more correct usage. On some systems, things in /sbin are static (namely sunos/solaris) since /lib is actually a link to /usr/lib and unmounting /usr would disable regular programs, but these same systems don't have static programs in /usr/sbin. Since we have an actual /lib and /usr/lib we don't have this problem. I think the generally accepted use is /sbin for system critical commands needed in a "failsafe" mode (single user), and /usr/sbin for slightly less important administration commands.
