Am Dienstag, 25. April 2006 20:11 schrieb ext Herman Grootaers:
> The division is not so strange as it seems. In */sbin the binaries
> placed are used by the systemuser root, that means the binaries can be
> used by anyone. in */bin the binaries are under user-control that is
> they are owned by the user who created the binary.

Neither /bin nor /usr/bin is under user control. They just contain tools 
which can be used by unpriviledged users.

> In /sbin are 
> therefore the general utilities which are necessary to boot the system,
> in /bin the rest of the utilities, in /usr and /opt are placed the
> programs which are installed by the user. The first one is for the
> standard applications, the latter is for the optional software,
> although some will install in /usr.

No, sorry, this is simply wrong. /sbin and /bin contain the things necessary 
at boot time, /sbin should only be relevant to root, while /bin contains 
things which can be _used_ by anyone. /usr/bin and /usr/sbin contains 
things which are not anymore relevant for booting (read: to mount other 
filesystems). However, the distinction between /usr/bin and /usr/sbin is 
the same as for /bin and /sbin.

Bye...

	Dirk
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