From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jul 18 05:48:12 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id FAA25039 for current-outgoing; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 05:48:12 -0700 Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [192.216.222.3]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id FAA25033 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 05:48:10 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.11) with SMTP id FAA12176 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 05:47:02 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA01601; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 13:24:40 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id NAA20317 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 13:24:39 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id IAA08407 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Tue, 18 Jul 1995 08:14:15 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199507180614.IAA08407@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Move mt(1) to /bin? To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 08:14:14 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199507170854.BAA00976@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Jul 17, 95 01:54:12 am Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 828 Sender: current-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > Before you make decisions you should create formal criteria for the > reasons things belong where they belong. Binaries that are essential for system recovery, even in case there's no /usr file system available (since it's disk is dead, or it's NFS and not reachable to recover the system). This includes everything that handles potential backup media and establishing a basic network connection. (The argument is for both, /bin and /sbin here. The latter decision should be based on hier(7).) > 15 years of unix experience tell me what that list is already... and > it is not the same for any 2 sites... though there is a common subset. Agreed. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)