From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 11 12:50: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from kronos.alcnet.com (kronos.alcnet.com [63.69.28.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F3C314EC5; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 12:49:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kbyanc@posi.net) X-Provider: ALC Communications, Inc. http://www.alcnet.com/ Received: from localhost (kbyanc@localhost) by kronos.alcnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3/antispam) with ESMTP id PAA11395; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 15:49:54 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 15:49:54 -0500 (EST) From: Kelly Yancey X-Sender: kbyanc@kronos.alcnet.com To: "David O'Brien" Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ** HEADS UP ** chown&chgrp moved again In-Reply-To: <20000107082513.A96136@dragon.nuxi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, David O'Brien wrote: > This is a heads up to let you know that you need to > > rm -f /sbin/chwon /bin/chgrp > > after your next `make world'. Additionally you need to install a new > /dev/MAKEDEV (mergmaster(8) will assist you in this). > > A while back I moved the install location for chown and chgrp from > /usr/sbin and /usr/bin to /sbin and /bin. This was because of > MAKEDEV(8)'s dependence on them, and thus forced /usr to be mounted for > correct operation of MAKEDEV(8). Of course that is bad since you could > easily be trying to create the device node to even mount /usr. > > This week, I have added chown-like functionality to mknod(8) and restored > chown & chgrp back to their previous locations. MAKEDEV has been > updated to use the new functionality of mknod(8). > > However, do to this moving around of chown & chgrp's install location, > you may easily have stale versions in /sbin and /bin. > > -- > -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) > > David, I just noticed that this note in 4.0's RELNOTES about the relocation doesn't appear applicable anymore: `chown' has moved from "/usr/sbin" to "/sbin". This is due to dependencies on it by `MAKEDEV'. Please update any scripts that have "/usr/sbin" hardcoded in them. Since `chgrp' is a link to `chown', `chgrp' has moved from "/usr/bin" to "/bin" to reside on the same partition. Kelly -- Kelly Yancey - kbyanc@posi.net - Richmond, VA Analyst / E-business Development, Bell Industries http://www.bellind.com/ Maintainer, BSD Driver Database http://www.posi.net/freebsd/drivers/ Coordinator, Team FreeBSD http://www.posi.net/freebsd/Team-FreeBSD/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message