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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!ux9.cso.uiuc.edu!not-for-mail From: igor@students.uiuc.edu (igor vladimirovich roshchin) 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? Followup-To: 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 Date: 5 Jun 1997 23:05:17 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 33 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <5n7gnd$fki@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <5kd2ng$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> <3396D8B8.8633FAB3@cjnetworks.com> <slrn5pe9vs.kni.hdm@stress.noc.demon.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: ux9.cso.uiuc.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au gnu.misc.discuss:31661 comp.unix.solaris:108758 comp.unix.shell:45749 comp.unix.bsd.misc:3512 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42470 comp.os.linux.x:63602 comp.os.linux.misc:179029 Dominic Mitchell (hdm@demon.net) wrote: > Earlier, nds <nickshreders@cjnetworks.com> wrote: > > > > > /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. > > Like /sbin/ping, you mean? The one that users never ever need to use? :-) I just looked into /sbin on my FreeBSD box -- the only program which an average user might be using is "ping" Even this is questionable - it is more a system tool. (ideally) On IRIX (5.3.) - you see lots of user-type programs: echo, ls, cp , ln, chmod .... (Unless I looked at a perverted installation - this is not my box) IgoR