Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 21:32:37 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: Gregory Neil Shapiro <gshapiro@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail updated from 8.9.3 to 8.11.0 in -current Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008132126220.1307-100000@besplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <14742.24207.71858.539724@horsey.gshapiro.net>
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On Sun, 13 Aug 2000, Gregory Neil Shapiro wrote:
> DougB> I'm seeing a small problem with up to the minute sources in the install
> DougB> phase:
>
> DougB> + cp /etc/aliases /etc/mail/aliases
> DougB> cp: not found
> DougB> *** Error code 127
>
> That is odd considering the step right before it uses 'mv' which is located
> in /bin/ (where 'cp' also lives). I assumed that if mv worked, cp would as
> well.
This is because /bin is not in $PATH at install time. `mv' is actually
located in ${TMPDIR}/install.$$. `cp' is not there, although `cp' is
used to put `mv' there, since it would be a bug to use `cp' instead of
${INSTALL} to install things after `install' is bootstrapped.
Bruce
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