Koos Pol wrote:
At 22:39 02/07/00, you wrote:
I did not suggest that. It all depends on the kind of use you put your computer to.
Agreed. Does raise the question though, where all the statically linked programs from /sbin have gone. The -s- in /sbin is for "static"
This is a common misinterpretation of the 's' in "/sbin" The 's' stands for "system" and is designated to contain "non-essential system binaries" not to be used by "ordinary" users (cf. the /sbin section in the FHS). As executables in /sbin often are executed in single-user mode, without having optional filesystems mounted, binaries under /sbin may not be dynamically linked against libraries in secondary (eg. /usr/lib) or optional filesystem hierarchies (eg. /opt/kde/lib) *or* have to be statically linked. Under Linux, this in practice means that binaries under /sbin can be dynamically linked against libraries below /lib but not be dynamically linked against libraries located elsewhere. Ralf -- Ralf Corsepius Forschungsinstitut fuer Anwendungsorientierte Wissensverarbeitung (FAW) Helmholtzstr. 16, 89081 Ulm, Germany Tel: +49/731/501-8690 mailto:corsepiu@faw.uni-ulm.de FAX: +49/731/501-999 http://www.faw.uni-ulm.de -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq