On 10/26/2011 03:07 PM, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Richard W.M. Jones<rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> said: >> Having said that, the split between /sbin and /bin is not a truly >> historical one, ie. it didn't exist in V7. I think it was added by >> System V which did a lot of other strange stuff too. > > Well, historically, a bunch of system utilities were in odd places like > /etc and /usr/lib. The idea of /sbin and /usr/sbin was to get compiled > executables out of those places (and to not clutter up the "normal" bin > directories with stuff users didn't need). For daemons, which should not be called directly on the command line, I would suggest to move them to /usr/lib/<packagename>/ anyway. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
