> > Current practice seems to have strayed a bit from the concept of only having > statically linked binaries in the sbin directories. You may find shell > scripts, perl, python, all kinds of stuff. I think these days a lot of > people tend to think the 's' stands for system or sysadmin or some such. And > you may find things in there that don't even relate to system administration. >
as someone else pointed out, FHS declares sbin to mean system bin. I know the musty UNIX history, we are talking current practice here (-: