On Thu 30 April 2015 19:02:54 Laurent Bercot wrote: > - Made sense at the time, doesn't make sense today: the separation between > administrator commands (/sbin, /usr/sbin) and user commands (/bin, > /usr/bin). Back then, filesystems were slow and scaled badly, caches were > small, and it was costly (time-wise for lookups) to have too many binaries > in a single location. Segregating admin-only binaries in a separate > location avoided clogging /bin and /usr/bin, and was a simple solution to > gain a factor of 2 or so, which apparently was enough. There certainly were > other reasons for that choice, but this is the only one that stands > examination
quote from most recent OpenSuse (yes, with dang systemd :-S ): jr@saturn:~> ntpdate Absolute path to 'ntpdate' is '/usr/sbin/ntpdate', so running it may require superuser privileges (eg. root). /j
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