/usr/local/bin vs /usr/local/sbin

[Joseph Sinclair]

Darrin Chandler wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 06:34:38AM -0700, George Toft wrote:
>> All of the shells are on /usr/bin, and symlinked from /bin
>>
>> This makes it exceedingly difficult to boot when /usr is gone :)
> 
> Ok, no question: that IS BROKEN! At the very least, root's shell should
> be in /bin and not be linked to anything in /usr. Solaris 8? They should
> know better.
> 
There's no question Solaris 8 is broken in this respect.  One of the first things many Solaris admins do is move a bunch of stuff from /usr/bin to /bin and replace the /usr/bin versions with symbolic links.

That said, a lot of Linux distributions still haven't quite gotten the idea that following the LSB is just plain good practice, and still have critical binaries in /usr/bin, hopefully this will change with time, for the larger distributions at least.