3 Feb
2012
3 Feb
'12
12:10 a.m.
On Feb 2, 2012, at 10:36 AM, John Cowan wrote:
Warner Losh scripsit:
I'd been told a long time ago that is stands for 'system' for people that
need to administer the system, not necessarily super users. The FreeBSD hier man page
seems to bear this out:
/sbin/ system programs and administration utilities fundamental to
both single-user and multi-user environments
sbin was created in SYS Vr4 to move all the
binaries that were in /etc.
/usr/share was created to move all the non-binary, non-text files that
were in /etc like termcap and timezone info.
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. Not everything in /usr/share comes from /etc; in
particular, /usr/share/dict
was formerly /usr/dict.
That's true, but /usr/dict was a bit of an odd-ball at the top /usr level.
/usr/share contained all the stuff from /etc and also other things that didn't seem
to belong. That's why it is documented as having the architecture independent files
in it...
Warner