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Re: Intent To Split: netbase



On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 01:44:05PM -0400, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> Debian's definitions came from the GNU Coding Standards, which came
> from BSD, in which "sbin" doesn't mean "static bin", it means
> "superuser bin", and replaced the older scheme of putting those
> programs in /etc.
> 
> There was another system (Missed Em Vee) which had a different "sbin".

Whatever; under either interpretation, putting traceroute there is just
plain wrong.

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