Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 10:24:52 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@mail.iowna.com> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Request For Help Message-ID: <3A69ADC4.840FC948@mail.iowna.com> References: <14953.13318.498222.83644@guru.mired.org> <3A6937B9.7603AE12@mail.iowna.com> <14953.43948.9057.308898@guru.mired.org>
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Mike Meyer wrote: > > I've been thinking about this ... why isn't passwd or pw in /sbin or > > /bin?? > > Because / is generally reserved for things needed to boot, and things > needed to repair systems that can't boot past that point. I guess it can be a judgement call as to what's "need to repair systems that can't boot past that point" it really isn't a critical command. > > The scenerio becomes even more of a pain if there are vinum volumes, > > (/usr for example) since vinum doesn't start in single user mode. so you > > can't just "mount" /usr. > > *Nothing* starts in single user mode. That doesn't mean it can't be > started by hand after you have things up to single user mode. In other > words, you have to do "/sbin/vinum start" before doing "mount > /usr". That's not nearly as painful as mounting an nfs partition. True, I was just whining ... > > I'm considering copying passwd to /bin on any systems I have that have > > vinum /usr drives. Can anyone see potential problems with this? > > I think the shared libraries it uses from /usr would be a problem: > > su-2.04# ldd /usr/bin/passwd > /usr/bin/passwd: > libcrypt.so.2 => /usr/lib/libcrypt.so.2 (0x2806a000) > librpcsvc.so.2 => /usr/lib/librpcsvc.so.2 (0x28081000) > libutil.so.3 => /usr/lib/libutil.so.3 (0x28089000) > libc.so.5 => /usr/lib/libc.so.5 (0x28092000) > > You need to build a statically linked version and install it in > /bin. Then worry about possibly running out of space on / (not really > very likely), and finally make sure that you update it when you update > the world. :-p Alright, you've convinced me. I'll just leave as is and do the vinum start thing if I have to. I guess that's really the answer to my question as to why it's not there. -Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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