Re: Preparing new distribution...

[Dancer <dancer@brisnet.org.au>]

Correct. Nearly everything you now find in /sbin on a modern sysV machine used
to live in /etc on BSD4.2 (and before, as well as some considerable time
after). It was the standard place.

D


Thomas Binder wrote:

> Hi!
>
> On Tue, Feb 24, 1998 at 03:58:50PM +0100, Maurits van de Kamp wrote:
> > > would you like to have /etc in your PATH?)
> >
> > You're confusing /usr/etc with /etc. :)
>
> Unfortunately, he isn't. There are some system which put a lot of
> binaries into /etc (e.g. ping on HP-UX). Or did you just want to point
> out that there are other systems "abusing" /usr/etc for binaries as
> well, like IRIX?
>
> Ciao
>
> Thomas
>
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