I always heard it stood for "S(ystem)BIN(aries)" that or "S(melly)BIN"
I've read in books that it was a place for programs used by su/root, so they added the "s".
Koos Pol wrote:
At 13:41 03/07/00, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
Koos Pol wrote:
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=962630392.801 046616&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
And now if I could only find the original remarks at Bell Labs when they where firing it all up... :-)
Cheers,
Koos Pol
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