From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 9 10: 0:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from anarchy.io.com (anarchy.io.com [199.170.88.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 269B837B503 for ; Mon, 9 Oct 2000 10:00:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from deliverator.io.com (root@deliverator.io.com [199.170.88.17]) by anarchy.io.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA02700; Mon, 9 Oct 2000 12:00:39 -0500 Received: from fnord.io.com (mcerha@fnord.io.com [199.170.88.12]) by deliverator.io.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA20432; Mon, 9 Oct 2000 12:00:23 -0500 Received: from localhost (mcerha@localhost) by fnord.io.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA03155; Mon, 9 Oct 2000 12:00:21 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: fnord.io.com: mcerha owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 12:00:21 -0500 (CDT) From: Matthew Cerha To: James A Wilde Cc: Send to questions Subject: Re: Self-contained binaries In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I seem to remember reading somewhere - could it be the Red Book? - that the > programs in /bin were self-contained, that is compiled without external > libraries, so that one could run them in single user mode before /usr was > mounted. However, I discovered to my dismay that this definitely is not the > case on Solaris. Is it so in FreeBSD? The binaries for Solaris are in /sbin. /bin under Solaris is really a symlink to /usr/bin. FreeBSD has static binaries in /bin and /sbin. Single user mode on a Solaris system is quite unusable for anything other than partitioning your drives in my experience. --mtc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message