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Date:      Tue, 27 Apr 1999 12:16:21 -0500
From:      Chris Costello <chris@holly.dyndns.org>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
Cc:        "Steve O'Hara-Smith" <steveo@iol.ie>, Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@altavista.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Confusing location of md5 program
Message-ID:  <19990427121619.B9324@holly.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <199904271606.KAA00754@harmony.village.org>; from Warner Losh on Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 10:06:15AM -0600
References:  <XFMail.990427164753.steveo@iol.ie> <199904271606.KAA00754@harmony.village.org>

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On Tue, Apr 27, 1999, Warner Losh wrote:
> In message <XFMail.990427164753.steveo@iol.ie> "Steve O'Hara-Smith" write=
s:
> :         I had always understood that sbin meant static binaries (ie:
> : those that could be used even when /lib is hosed) and should contain
> : the vital binaries for such situations. I have just failed to locate
> : the documentation that has left me believing this so could somebody
> : confirm (or deny) ?
>=20
> /sbin is for "System binaries", which are traditionally linked static.
> since both system and static begin with 's' there has been much
> confusion over what, exactly, sbin means.  The first part of this is
> in hier(7).

   My god, that man page is horrible!  I'll fix it up.

>=20
> Don't know why md5 is in /sbin vs /bin or /usr/sbin, to be honest.
>=20
> Warner
>=20
>=20
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Chris Costello                                <chris@calldei.com>
How was Thomas J. Watson buried?  9 edge down.

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