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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!newsfeeds.sol.net!feed1.news.erols.com!disgorge.news.demon.net!demon!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!stress.noc.demon.net!hdm From: hdm@demon.net (Dominic Mitchell) 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 20:56:29 GMT Organization: Demon Internet Ltd. Message-ID: <slrn5pe9vs.kni.hdm@stress.noc.demon.net> 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> Reply-To: hdm@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Host: stress.noc.demon.net X-NNTP-Posting-Host: stress.noc.demon.net [195.11.55.5] X-Newsreader: slrn (0.9.3.2 UNIX) Lines: 28 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au gnu.misc.discuss:31659 comp.unix.solaris:108743 comp.unix.shell:45746 comp.unix.bsd.misc:3510 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42465 comp.os.linux.x:63595 comp.os.linux.misc:179013 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? :-) -Dom -- This posting is not an official communication of Demon Internet Ltd., unless otherwise stated. ---- Work: hdm@demon.net ---- Play: dom@myrddin.demon.co.uk ---- Feet on the ground, mind in the stratosphere - P.L.