Re: Preparing new distribution...

[Kristoffer Lawson <setok@fishpool.com>]

On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Dancer wrote:

> 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.

It also seems like fairly common practise to put binaries in /usr/etc.
Maybe also a SysV thing?
Whether this is acceptable behaviour or not I'm not sure.

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