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by Padding 4100 days ago
Is there an aricle with specifics on this and why it was done?
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teddyh 4100 days ago
I have no direct information about this specific case, but in ye olden Unix™ days, there was no /sbin, so all those binaries instead lived in /etc. The Red Hat symlinks could be a backwards-compatibility thing.
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SSLy 4100 days ago
You mean bug-compability?
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teddyh 4100 days ago
No, I would not mean that, since the previous behavior was not a bug.
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