On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 14:40:17 -0500
George Adkins <george@webbastard.org> wrote:

> /sbin is for the important tools that need to be statically linked=20
> (notice the 's' in the beginning of 'sbin'?)
As James wrote: The "s" is for "system" or "superuser", not "static".
"bin" contains binaries for all users. Have a look at what binaries are
in what directory. (sh/ksh/csh, ls, ln, cp, rm, ... in bin and fsck,
mount, ifconfig, init, newfs, ... in sbin)
--=20


tsch=FC=DF,
       Jochen

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