On 05/05/2014 10:28 AM, Adam Jackson wrote:
On Sun, 2014-05-04 at 18:59 +0200, Reindl Harald wrote:
however, the semantics of /usr/sbin is to contain superuser
binaries which should not be overriden because a binary
with the same name exists in /usr/bin
My memory is that the "s" was more for "static" not "superuser".
There's some conceptual overlap, static binaries being there to recover
even if your shared libraries are hosed which is normally a "superuser"
kind of operation, but.
My recollection is that the "s" in /sbin and /usr/sbin was more "system"
level management. Things an admin would need but would not usually be
needed by an ordinary user.
Binaries in /bin and /sbin would have been statically linked to aid in
recovering a system in single-user mode when /usr might not be mounted,
in the days when disks were so small that /usr might often be a separate
disk.
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Kaleb
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