[Linux-disciples] The hierarchy

Dylan Thurston dpt at lotus.bostoncoop.net
Tue Apr 26 13:23:59 EDT 2005


On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 09:25:08PM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> In /usr/sbin we have only
> 
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 37933 2004-11-26 23:14 /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 27641 2005-04-05 14:24 /usr/sbin/apt-setup
> 
> Can anyone help me explain why these programs are where they
> are?

There are periodic arguments about exactly what should go where.  But
your system is either vastly more stripped-down than mine, or Ubuntu
has moved many things to /usr/bin, since I have a lot more programs in
/usr/sbin; 'update-alternatives', for instance.

Peace,
	Dylan
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