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What do you mean?
by vntok 9mo ago
What do you mean?
- paulddraper 9mo agoI mean the article doesn’t explain sbin. The author symlinks it to bin but doesn’t explain why it exists.
- em500 9mo agoI'm believe /sbin was introduced/standardized in System V Release 4. It's present in SVR4 (1988) but not in SVR3 (1987). Another candidate is would be some old BSD (check 4.2 or 4.3 (1986) if anyone has a running system). I'm guessing it was introduced to finally move out all the (mostly system) binaries from /etc, which in ancient Unix from Bell Labs in the 1970s really meant "etc", as in stuff that didn't fit elsewhere rather than system config files, so it contained binaries like init, mount, umount.