"Shawn Starr" <sstarr@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: Top posting kills kittens. > Well, if you did a ldd on a unix box you'd notice binaries in /sbin were staticly built. Depends how you define Unix then. I don't have any actual Unix certified OS's around, but Fedora certainly doesn't link everything in /sbin statically. My favourite: $ ldd /sbin/dump.static linux-gate.so.1 => (0x00110000) libext2fs.so.2 => /lib/libext2fs.so.2 (0x00ca6000) libcom_err.so.2 => /lib/libcom_err.so.2 (0x00d0d000) libz.so.1 => /lib/libz.so.1 (0x0058e000) libbz2.so.1 => /lib/libbz2.so.1 (0x00cfa000) libblkid.so.1 => /lib/libblkid.so.1 (0x00c66000) libuuid.so.1 => /lib/libuuid.so.1 (0x00c8a000) libdevmapper.so.1.02 => /lib/libdevmapper.so.1.02 (0x0060e000) libselinux.so.1 => /lib/libselinux.so.1 (0x00336000) libsepol.so.1 => /lib/libsepol.so.1 (0x00765000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x003e6000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x0056c000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x003c7000) (Yes that's cheating, /sbin/dump.static is a symlink. But still funny.) /Benny -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list