Re: /usr/bin vs /usr/sbin

1999-03-01 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 01:51:58PM +, Ben Bell wrote: > Debian is a Linux. This is not true. Debian is an operating system distribution. Linux is just an operating system kernel. Debian uses Linux, this is true. Currently all released versions of Debian use Linux, this is true too, but thi

Re: /usr/bin vs /usr/sbin

1999-03-01 Thread Ben Bell
On Tue, Feb 23, 1999 at 02:13:43AM -0800, Joseph Carter wrote: > > > sbin is for STATIC binaries. > > > > Please read section 3.10 of fsstnd (/usr/doc/debian-policy/fsstnd) > > before you write something like this... > > FSSTND is a Linuxism. Debian is a Linux. Whatever the original purpose, even

Re: /usr/bin vs /usr/sbin

1999-02-25 Thread Joel Klecker
At 02:13 -0800 1999-02-23, Joseph Carter wrote: LTNT.. => On Mon, Feb 22, 1999 at 03:45:43AM -0800, George Bonser wrote: > 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,

Re: /usr/bin vs /usr/sbin

1999-02-24 Thread Gregory T. Norris
Thanx to everyone for your comments regarding this. After going through all the responses, as well as taking another look at both FSSTND and FHS, I'm going to go ahead and place the binary under /usr/sbin. Thanx for your assistance!

Re: /usr/bin vs /usr/sbin

1999-02-23 Thread Roland Rosenfeld
On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Joseph Carter wrote: > > > > Sbin is for system run binaries, daemons, etc. This sounds > > > > appropriate here. > > > sbin is for STATIC binaries. > > Please read section 3.10 of fsstnd (/usr/doc/debian-policy/fsstnd) > > before you write something like this... > FSSTND i

Re: /usr/bin vs /usr/sbin

1999-02-23 Thread Jules Bean
On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Joseph Carter wrote: > LTNT.. => > > On Mon, Feb 22, 1999 at 03:45:43AM -0800, George Bonser 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 dis

Re: /usr/bin vs /usr/sbin

1999-02-23 Thread Joseph Carter
On Mon, Feb 22, 1999 at 12:47:57PM +0100, Roland Rosenfeld wrote: > > > Sbin is for system run binaries, daemons, etc. This sounds > > > appropriate here. > > > sbin is for STATIC binaries. > > Please read section 3.10 of fsstnd (/usr/doc/debian-policy/fsstnd) > before you write something like th

Re: /usr/bin vs /usr/sbin

1999-02-23 Thread Joseph Carter
LTNT.. => On Mon, Feb 22, 1999 at 03:45:43AM -0800, George Bonser 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 ha

Re: /usr/bin vs /usr/sbin

1999-02-23 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Joseph" == Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joseph> On Mon, Feb 22, 1999 at 03:45:43AM -0800, George Bonser wrote: >> 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'

Re: /usr/bin vs /usr/sbin

1999-02-22 Thread Joseph Carter
On Mon, Feb 22, 1999 at 03:45:43AM -0800, George Bonser 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)

Re: /usr/bin vs /usr/sbin

1999-02-22 Thread Ben Collins
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

Re: /usr/bin vs /usr/sbin

1999-02-22 Thread Roland Rosenfeld
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. Please read section 3.10 of fsstnd (/usr/doc/debian-policy/fsstnd) before you write something like this... Ciao Roland -- * [

Re: /usr/bin vs /usr/sbin

1999-02-22 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sun, Feb 21, 1999 at 11:54:00PM -0500, Shaleh wrote: > > I'm working on packaging fakebo, which is a utility for logging the > > activities of the (windows-based) BackOrifice and NetBus trojans. In > > it's original makefile it installed to /usr/local/bin, which I've > > changed to $(DESTDIR)/u

RE: /usr/bin vs /usr/sbin

1999-02-22 Thread Shaleh
On 22-Feb-99 Gregory T. Norris wrote: > I'm working on packaging fakebo, which is a utility for logging the > activities of the (windows-based) BackOrifice and NetBus trojans. In > it's original makefile it installed to /usr/local/bin, which I've > changed to $(DESTDIR)/usr/bin. Because it's a p