> This is, I'm sure, a naive question, so bear with me. What is the > purpose of /usr/libexec? I see from hier(7) that it has something to do > with "System daemons and utilities (executed by other programs)" which > probably means, "stuff not normally executed by users". But it's unclear > to me how this is different, from, say, /sbin. > > I'm running into this because I've been looking at the spamd code for a > class project, but I'm not finding a lot of information about libexec in > general-- there isn't even a mention of it in my big red BSD book. And > most of the hits on Google are bits of a long, angry thread about > libexec's nonexistence in the Linux FHS. > > I don't need a long-winded response. A prod in the right direction > would be fine.
It is stuff that isn't on root's path.
