Subject: Re: CVS commit: basesrc
To: Johan Danielsson <joda@pdc.kth.se>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
List: source-changes
Date: 08/07/2000 08:38:04
On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 04:50:57PM +0200, Johan Danielsson wrote:

 > Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@netbsd.org> writes:
 > 
 > > The Kerberos KDC belongs in /usr/sbin, not in /usr/libexec.
 > 
 > Please explain why?

It is started by rc.d, not by e.g. inetd.  hpropd, on the otherhand,
is typically started from inetd.

To quote hier(7):

	libexec/  system daemons & system utilities (executed by other
		  programs)
	.
	.
	.
	sbin/     system daemons and system utilities (normally exe-
		  cuted by the super-user)

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>