Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 20:07:44 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: Ben Rosengart <ben@skunk.org>, Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com>, "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Speaking of moving files (Re: make world broken building fortunes ) Message-ID: <19991214200744.D1003@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <199912141832.KAA22638@apollo.backplane.com>; from dillon@apollo.backplane.com on Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 10:32:23AM -0800 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.9912141143590.76868-100000@penelope.skunk.org> <199912141832.KAA22638@apollo.backplane.com>
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On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 10:32:23AM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :>
> :> > So how about /usr/sbin/chown -> /sbin/chown so that MAKEDEV works with
> :> > just the root file system mounted?
> :>
> :> As one who just got his ass bitten by this, I would vote yes.
> :
> :As one who's missed chown at times when only root's mounted, I'm with Bill.
> :
> :--
> : Ben Rosengart
> :
> :UNIX Systems Engineer, Skunk Group
> :StarMedia Network, Inc.
>
> I think at one time or another all of us have missed *something* in
> /usr that wasn't in /. For example, disklabel -e doesn't work without
> vi -- which is in /usr.
Bad example:
yedi#EDITOR=ed disklabel -re da0
831
1,$p
# /dev/rda0c:
type: SCSI
disk: da0s2
label:
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 63
tracks/cylinder: 255
sectors/cylinder: 16065
[etc]
yedi#type ed
ed is /bin/ed
yedi#
8)
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