From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 7 7: 2:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from panix.com (panix.com [166.84.1.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54B1C1567F for ; Tue, 7 Sep 1999 07:02:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsi@panix.com) Received: (from rsi@localhost) by panix.com (8.8.5/8.8.8/PanixU1.4) id KAA24138; Tue, 7 Sep 1999 10:00:43 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199909071400.KAA24138@panix.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: chown/chgrp location and MAKEDEV From: Rajappa Iyer Date: 07 Sep 1999 10:00:42 -0400 Reply-To: rsi@panix.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sorry if this has been discussed before, but I couldn't find anything relevant in the mail archives. /dev/MAKEDEV contains references to chown and chgrp which are in /usr/sbin. This makes it impossible to run MAKEDEV when the /usr fs is not available. I had recent occasion when I had to execute MAKEDEV before /usr could be mounted---in fact, I had to execute MAKEDEV so that /usr could be mounted on the disk whose LUN id had changed to something for which there were no entries in /dev. Yes, I know that I should have run MAKEDEV before changing the id on the disk, but I do feel one should be able run MAKEDEV without needing to have /usr mounted. Shouldn't chown and chgrp be in /sbin? Thanks, Rajappa -- a.k.a. Rajappa Iyer. New York, New York. We're too busy mopping the floor to turn off the faucet. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message