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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!hookup!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: where do daemons go? Date: 16 Jan 1996 10:58:15 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4dg0c7$gtb@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4cq4j5$flf@gol2.gol.com> <4cr51d$pl@uriah.heep.sax.de> <ufwx6xb0fo.fsf@cumulus.sky.bln.sub.org> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 martini@heaven7.snafu.de (Martin Ibert) writes: > : Btw., don't place binaries into /etc. Better put it into > : /usr/local/sbin. (RTFM hier(7)) > > Um, I don't think that hier(7) suggests /usr/local/sbin. I would much > rather install local daemon binaries into /usr/local/libexec. That's a question of whether the programs are runnable manually (like sendmail), so they belong into .../sbin. If they are only (or mostly -- you see, it's not 1000 % clear) runnable by programs (e.g. by inetd), they rather belong into .../libexec. There's often no clear decision. /usr/libexec/uucico could be started manually to test a UUCP connection, and /usr/sbin/sliplogin is almost always run by login(1), just to name two. :) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)