3 Feb
2012
3 Feb
'12
3:14 a.m.
On Thu, 2 Feb 2012, John Cowan wrote:
Does anyone know what the "s" in sbin stands
for? "Superuser"? I would
have put these files in /root/bin, but perhaps /root did not yet exist.
I seem to recall that they were statically linked i.e. not using those
new-fangled shared library thingies. And if you've ever tried to admin a
system with a trashed shared library, you'll understand; it usually
involves looking for the installation media.
Not everything in /usr/share comes from /etc; in
particular,
/usr/share/dict was formerly /usr/dict.
As I dimly recall, /usr/share was exported, hence the name.
-- Dave