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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.uwa.edu.au!disco.iinet.net.au!news1.mpcs.com!zephyr.texoma.net!hunter.premier.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!demos!oksennus.binary.net!news.mid.net!news.cjnetworks.com!usenet From: nds <nickshreders@cjnetworks.com> Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.shell,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list? Date: Thu, 05 Jun 1997 10:18:16 -0500 Organization: Capital Journal Networks Lines: 18 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <3396D8B8.8633FAB3@cjnetworks.com> References: <5kd2ng$c8b$1@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> <337A003F.6A7B@ncofsi.com> <3378D37F.462F3A47@gaijin.com> <5lcjee$g4i$1@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> <5lclfo$597$1@news.ececs.uc.edu> <sejaflxyhnp.fsf@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <337A4444.1B61@agcs.com> <NEWTNews.863735492.21085.Steve@oem030.oem.state.or.us> <33956A6B.3A5FF275@physik.tu-muenchen.de> <slrn5pav5l.8bo.hdm@stress.noc.demon.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: port105.cjnetworks.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.0b3C (X11; I; Linux 2.0.30 i486) X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au gnu.misc.discuss:31655 comp.unix.solaris:108726 comp.unix.shell:45738 comp.unix.bsd.misc:3508 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42455 comp.os.linux.x:63568 comp.os.linux.misc:178974 > > > /bin > > > /sbin > > > /usr/bin > > > /usr/sbin > > > > bin is binaries. But sbin? > > strange binaries? :-) > > I've come across several variations: > > System Binaries > Static Binaries > Single-user Binaries > > On balance, I'd probably go with "static". The first one is more correct, System Binaries, why? Because only the sysadmin should be using the programs that are in there.