Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 20:38:56 +0200 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@mail.cicely.de> To: Jim Bryant <kc5vdj@yahoo.com> Cc: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>, tlambert2@mindspring.com, Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, Jason Vervlied <jvervlied@hway.net>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bash in /usr/local/bin? Message-ID: <20010812203855.E8111@cicely20.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <3B76756F.9020809@yahoo.com>; from kc5vdj@yahoo.com on Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 07:24:15AM -0500 References: <71828.997617255@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> <3B76756F.9020809@yahoo.com>
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On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 07:24:15AM -0500, Jim Bryant wrote: > heh.. i know, but still... > > as for me, i'd mv `/usr/local/bin/bash /dev/null`, but he did make a good point, and the fact that the big vendors are moving in the > direction he suggests [I belive Sun *IS* distributing BASH in /bin under Solaris 8, as I recall] does reinforce this idea. Yes the sun packages installs into /bin: ticso@cicely22> uname -a SunOS cicely22 5.8 Generic_108528-01 sun4m sparc SUNW,SPARCclassic ticso@cicely22> which bash /bin/bash ticso@cicely22> file /bin/bash /bin/bash: ELF 32-bit MSB executable SPARC Version 1, dynamically linked, stripped It's not the first time that Unix Vendors do very silly things - just remember that Solaris mounts / /usr and /var readwrite in singleuser mode. Just that others do is not a good reason to polute the base directories. If you have a local reason - well that's your choice - but it shouldn't be default. -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de ticso@cicely.de Usergroup info@cosmo-project.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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