> On May 3, 2016 at 11:43 PM Joel Roth <joelz@???> wrote:

[...]

> Interesting, I thought /sbin was historically for statically
> linked executables needed at boot time, or for system
> recovery.

The /sbin and /usr/sbin are analogous to /bin and /usr/sbin but they contain
programs for administrative purposes such as adduser which require privileges
and are not needed by user logins or might not be expected for ordinary user
access.

On some distros ifconfig is in one of these and isn't visible to the user, even
though it might be useful.

Peter Olson