From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Feb 3 07:34:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA05537 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 3 Feb 1996 07:34:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA05518 for ; Sat, 3 Feb 1996 07:34:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id QAA03163; Sat, 3 Feb 1996 16:34:18 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id QAA26613; Sat, 3 Feb 1996 16:34:17 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id QAA11526; Sat, 3 Feb 1996 16:24:43 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199602031524.QAA11526@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Q: why install -d dir missing ? To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sat, 3 Feb 1996 16:24:42 +0100 (MET) Cc: haury@sagem.fr Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199602021918.UAA10893@sagem.fr> from "haury@sagem.fr" at Feb 2, 96 08:18:38 pm 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 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As haury@sagem.fr wrote: > > I am wondering why the well known option '-d' is missing in current install > program. Since I am a newbie in FreeBSD, I hope it's not an old war :-) It is. :-) Directories are to be created via the /etc/mtrees/* templates, not via some hack in install(1). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)