From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 14 19:16:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA03993 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 14 May 1996 19:16:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA03982 for ; Tue, 14 May 1996 19:15:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id TAA08210; Tue, 14 May 1996 19:18:32 -0700 Date: Tue, 14 May 1996 19:18:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Tony Harverson cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Upgrading 2.1R to 2.2SNAP - /stand ? In-Reply-To: <199605142022.WAA01818@hornet.netac.co.za> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 14 May 1996, Tony Harverson wrote: > I have just successfully completed a remote upgrade of a 2.1R box to a SNAP-960501 > box by unpacking the Binary Distribution and the manual and Documentation distribs > onto the box and removing and then replacing the old directories. The notable > absence in the new distrib, however, was the /stand directory. Is this just a result > of having done the upgrade in an unusual manner, or has the /stand directory been > removed from 2.2 ? It was because of the goofy way you upgraded. Stand is a wierd bird in itself -- it's a giant linked binary. Try doing 'ls -l' in it sometime. Odd that most of the files are 802816 bytes and the others are 456940 bytes. :-) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major