linq

> You misunderstood. David is saying that /bin may be a symlink, > instead of a directory. Indeed I did, and indeed they are: root@sbox:~# ls -lh / | egrep bin lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root7 Jan 16 10:39 bin -> usr/bin lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root8 Jan 16 10:39 sbin -> usr/sbin -- Glenn Eng

Re: linq

On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 12:52:09PM -0700, ghe wrote: > On Wednesday, February 26, 2020 9:10 AM, David Wright > wrote: > > You may be running a system where even /bin and /sbin have ceased > > to exist as directories, and are merely symlinks to /usr/bin and > > /usr/sbin. Evolution? Tidying up? … >

linq

‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Wednesday, February 26, 2020 9:10 AM, David Wright wrote: > > Looks to me like it means 'link to ' > > Indeed. This means that an old script which tries to run > /usr/bin/X11/foo will succeed in running /usr/bin/foo, > which is where foo will have been placed.