The -s- in /sbin is for "static"
This is a common misinterpretation of the 's' in "/sbin" The 's' stands for "system"
Now I wasn't an admin in the 70's or 80's yet, so I can't speak from experience, but a least this is not what I have learned in my SVR4 course. My course says the -s- is for "statically". At this this guy (http://x71.deja.com/[ST_rn=ps]/getdoc.xp?AN=500170437&CONTEXT=962630392.801046616&hitnum=112) seems to agree with me :-)
Also, some more pointers: http://www.enteract.com/~lspitz/armoring.html http://www.yggdrasil.com/bible/bible-src/sag-0.2/sag/node9.html
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. I, like the previous poster, thought the -s- stood for system or superuser. Whever history or your course tutor says, this is the sensible interpretation on a modern UNIX. Now, I must get back to work because this thread is absolutely, utterly and totally irrelevant! ;-> -- 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