From: cowan@mercury.ccil.org (John Cowan)
Subject: [TUHS] Understanding the /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin Split
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 12:36:24 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120202173623.GQ30634@mercury.ccil.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <89159FF1-5521-4890-A5F0-30DC9E5B7EC9@bsdimp.com>
Warner Losh scripsit:
> sbin was created in SYS Vr4 to move all the binaries that were in /etc.
> /usr/share was created to move all the non-binary, non-text files that
> were in /etc like termcap and timezone info.
Does anyone know what the "s" in sbin stands for? "Superuser"? I would
have put these files in /root/bin, but perhaps /root did not yet exist.
Not everything in /usr/share comes from /etc; in particular, /usr/share/dict
was formerly /usr/dict.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-02 17:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-31 19:16 A. P. Garcia
2012-01-31 19:27 ` Warner Losh
2012-02-01 11:12 ` Jose R. Valverde
2012-02-01 17:35 ` Warner Losh
2012-02-02 13:32 ` Random832
2012-02-02 17:24 ` Warner Losh
2012-02-02 17:36 ` John Cowan [this message]
2012-02-02 18:10 ` Warner Losh
2012-02-02 21:14 ` Dave Horsfall
2012-02-02 21:49 ` Warner Losh
2012-02-02 22:29 ` Tim Newsham
2012-02-02 22:47 ` Warner Losh
2012-02-02 22:59 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2012-02-02 23:33 ` Warner Losh
2012-03-13 16:09 ` [TUHS] ASR 37 teletype desired by LCM / Vulcan.com John Foust
2012-02-02 22:53 ` [TUHS] Understanding the /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin Split Lyndon Nerenberg
2012-02-02 23:35 ` Warner Losh
2012-02-03 11:10 ` Tim Bradshaw
2012-02-03 15:22 ` Jose R. Valverde
2012-02-03 16:06 ` Ronald Natalie
2012-02-03 16:09 ` Steve Nickolas
2012-02-02 17:40 ` Warner Losh
2012-02-02 18:02 ` Tim Newsham
2012-02-02 13:45 ` Tim Bradshaw
2012-02-01 9:26 arnold
2012-02-02 13:35 ` Tim Bradshaw
2012-02-02 13:49 ` Larry McVoy
2012-02-02 23:16 Norman Wilson
2012-02-02 23:37 ` Carl Lowenstein
2012-02-02 23:58 ` John Cowan
2012-02-04 19:34 Pepe
2012-02-04 21:05 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2012-02-05 8:38 Hendrik Jan Thomassen
2012-02-05 10:13 ` Jaap Akkerhuis
2012-02-05 17:15 ` Warner Losh
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