From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 4 16:29:08 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id QAA26250 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 4 Apr 1995 16:29:08 -0700 Received: from trout.sri.MT.net (trout.sri.MT.net [204.182.243.12]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA26244 for ; Tue, 4 Apr 1995 16:29:01 -0700 Received: (from nate@localhost) by trout.sri.MT.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) id RAA08071; Tue, 4 Apr 1995 17:32:49 -0600 Date: Tue, 4 Apr 1995 17:32:49 -0600 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199504042332.RAA08071@trout.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) "Re: new install(1) utility" (Apr 4, 5:15pm) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.5 10/14/92) To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Subject: Re: new install(1) utility Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > As long as I'm in a rebutting mood. > > > > > Much better (if one must hack on install) to cause intermediately > > > created directories when installing a target to be owned by the > > > specified user and group instead of being owned by the installer > > > (hint: this would fix a number of X install problems). > > > > 1) Install doesn't create any intermediate directories. Install doesn't > > create directories period. (Although NetBSD has added support for that > > in their version). > > % man install > [ ... ] > -d Create a directory. ..... That ain't a FreeBSD machine you're on so none of the remaining arguements apply. Nate