From owner-freebsd-current Sun Aug 12 11:39:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from srv1.cosmo-project.de (srv1.cosmo-project.de [213.83.6.106]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1B3F37B407 for ; Sun, 12 Aug 2001 11:39:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ticso@mail.cicely.de) Received: from mail.cicely.de (cicely20 [10.1.1.22]) by srv1.cosmo-project.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f7CIdQ336263; Sun, 12 Aug 2001 20:39:28 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from ticso@localhost) by mail.cicely.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f7CIcuc08454; Sun, 12 Aug 2001 20:38:56 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 20:38:56 +0200 From: Bernd Walter To: Jim Bryant Cc: Sheldon Hearn , tlambert2@mindspring.com, Wes Peters , Jason Vervlied , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bash in /usr/local/bin? Message-ID: <20010812203855.E8111@cicely20.cicely.de> References: <71828.997617255@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> <3B76756F.9020809@yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3B76756F.9020809@yahoo.com>; from kc5vdj@yahoo.com on Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 07:24:15AM -0500 X-Operating-System: NetBSD cicely20.cicely.de 1.5 sparc Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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