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		Padding on March 24, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bug 1202858 – Restarting squid results in deleting... Is there an aricle with specifics on this and why it was done?

teddyh on March 24, 2015 [–]

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 on March 24, 2015 | [–]

You mean bug-compability?

teddyh on March 24, 2015 | | [–]

No, I would not mean that, since the previous behavior was not a bug.

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