> I think the directory structure is a little odd at first, but once you > learn it it makes more sense (to me anyways). The one thing that still > bugs me though is all the variations of bin laying around.. /bin, > /usr/bin, /sbin, /usr/sbin, /usr/local/bin. Why is there a /bin and a > /usr/bin? and although I can see the logic of keeping root-only utils in > /sbin, if you have to be root to run them anyway, why not dump it all in > /bin? I'm planning to start doing this on some of my boxen, dump all the > files from /usr/bin, /sbin, /usr/sbin into /bin and then symlink the old > bin directories, since I assume stuff is compiled to look for /usr/sbin > and whatnot. Any reason why I couldn't do this? Nope. Ain't Linux great... Personally I hate the practice that seems to have turned up lately of putting useful luser utilities like traceroute in /usr/sbin. What the hell? Since when is traceroute a root util?