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Early versions of the FHS did not include /usr/libexec; this has since been rectified:
http://www.linuxbase.org/betaspecs/fhs/fhs/ch04s07.html
== So where did /sbin, /usr/sbin, /var come from? ==
Actually, unless my memories are too faded, I ''know'' where they came from - some people at Sun, around the time SunOS 4.0 was being developed, were making some changes to the directory layout, oriented towards NFS-only diskless workstations (when Sun were killing of the ND remote-disk-access protocol), and one of the changes was the introduction of <tt>/var</tt> (to separate read-only stuff in <tt>/usr</tt>, with diskless workstations mounting the same export on <tt>/usr</tt>, from read-write stuff in <tt>/var</tt>, with each diskless workstation mounting its own private directory tree on <tt>/var</tt>), and another was splitting (<tt>/usr</tt>)<tt>/bin</tt> from (<tt>/usr</tt>)<tt>/sbin</tt> (not related to diskless workstations, but it was a cleanup done while they were at it, so that users who didn't need the administrative tools didn't have to have them in their <tt>$PATH</tt>).
I seem to remember a document written describing this, and possibly even being circulated outside Sun (possibly amongst licensees of NFS and/or the BSD folk). However, I can't seem to find any trace of that document online. Anybody have less-faded memories than mine? [[User:Guy Harris|Guy Harris]] ([[User talk:Guy Harris|talk]]) 01:26, 17 November 2013 (UTC)
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