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Padding | 11 years ago

Is there an aricle with specifics on this and why it was done?

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teddyh|11 years 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.

SSLy|11 years ago

You mean bug-compability?