At 17:17 03/07/00, you wrote:
I checked all three of those links and none of them say what the -s- in sbin stands for. (Unless I missed it.) They just say the directory contains statically linked executables. Which is crap. All the exectuables in my SuSE-6.2 /sbin directory have a dynamically linked libc.so, except for the dozen or so shell scripts which aren't linked against anything - statically or otherwise.
Although I respect your opinion, (my opinion is an opinion likewise), you can't be serious taking SuSE as reference in a 25 years of Unix history. Now as I am still looking for the original Bell Labs remarks on this stuff, it should be fun to see if someone has an old Unix system hanging around and can check what files are in /sbin :-) Cheers, Koos Pol ---------------------------------------------------------------------- S.C. Pol T: +31 20 3116122 Systems Administrator F: +31 20 3116200 Compuware Europe B.V. E: koos_pol@nl.compuware.com Amsterdam PGP public key available -- 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