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Date:      Mon, 29 Jul 2002 11:13:28 +0300
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Wayne M Barnes <stabilizer@klentaq.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: broken /usr/bin/install
Message-ID:  <20020729081328.GD83185@sunbay.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020728214430.A15686@klentaq.com>
References:  <20020728214430.A15686@klentaq.com>

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On Sun, Jul 28, 2002 at 09:44:30PM -0500, Wayne M Barnes wrote:
> Dear FreeBSD,
> 
>      I just tried to install postfix, and the install crashed
> at an invocation of 'install', saying bad usage.
> 
What he said, specifically?  Was this something about -C and -d?

>      I noticed it was a new postfix-1.11, so I tried the recent
> 1.10, which gave the same result.  
> 
>      I typed in the suspect command myself as root, and it worked
> fine.  It just wouldn't work with the script.
> 
>      Then I noticed that I had just done a cvsup, and the sizes
> of the 'install' commands on the two FreeBSD4.6 systems are different,
> and the older one works.  
> The good one is
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  12004 Jun 13 21:42 /usr/bin/install
> FreeBSD etaq.com 4.6-RC FreeBSD 4.6-RC #2: Thu Jun 13 21:54:57 CDT 2002     
> wayne@etaq.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/KERNEL4  i38
> 
> The bad one (at least it can't install postfix) is:
> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel 11956 Jul 28 14:56 /usr/bin/install* 
> FreeBSD etaq2.etaq.com 4.6-STABLE FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE #1: Sun Jul 28 
> 18:01:25 CDT 2002
> root@:/usr/src/sys/compile/KERNEL4 i386
> 
>  -- Wayne M Barnes
> stabilizer@klentaq.com

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