Lots of Unix programs that have ended up in the wrong directory for
historical reasons have a mention in their man pages that says "this
shouldn't be in /foo, it should be in /bar, but I'm leaving it in /foo so as
not to break any scripts."
/bin, /usr/bin, and /sbin are commonly confused.
-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Wreski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, April 30, 1998 6:21 PM
Subject: Re: why shouldn't rmail be in /bin
>
>> man rmail says that rmail should not be in /bin. Why not...
>
>Hmm.. Don't exactly know why the man page states that, but typically
>binaries that the superuser uses are stored in /bin. Normal users use
>/usr/bin, which is where that should go.
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