On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 12:39:55AM +0200, Victor Foitzik wrote: > Hi folks, > > maybe this is not the right mailing list, but I don't know where to ask, so > this > is my problem: why are binaries in /sbin and /usr/sbin not statically linked > against libraries ? Thought the 's' stands for static ?
Nope - I believe that the 's' is for system (not 100% sure; somebody correct
me if I'm wrong.
The idea is that normal users should not have /sbin:/usr/sbin in their path -
these two directories contains stuff like daemons and admin-tools.
> I recently ran into big trouble as i accidantly removed the link to my
> libc-whatever shared object. Everything I tried to use to restore the link
> ended
Big oops. :-)
> in 'shared object not found', as the link was missing. I even wasn't unable to
> start sh ! Finally, the problem was solved with ldconfig -l, but this is quite
> not, what I've expected ! Is this normal, or is the above problem only debian
> specific ?
>
> Regards
> Victor
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