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From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
Message-Id: <199511171017.LAA15492@uriah.heep.sax.de>
Subject: Re: absolute pathnames in /usr/share/mk/bsd.*.mk
To: wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de (Wolfram Schneider)
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 1995 11:17:16 +0100 (MET)
Cc: asami@cs.berkeley.edu, current@FreeBSD.org
Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
In-Reply-To: <199511160956.KAA08085@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de> from "Wolfram Schneider" at Nov 16, 95 10:56:50 am
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As Wolfram Schneider wrote:
> 
> $ egrep /sbin/ *.mk |wc -l
>        6   
> 
> $ egrep /sbin/ *.mk    
> bsd.kmod.mk:    /sbin/modload -o ${KMOD} -e${KMOD} ${PROG}
> bsd.kmod.mk:    /sbin/modunload -n ${KMOD}
> bsd.port.mk:MD5?=                       /sbin/md5
> bsd.port.mk:MTREE_CMD?= /usr/sbin/mtree
> bsd.port.mk:PKG_CMD?=           /usr/sbin/pkg_create
> bsd.port.mk:            if /sbin/ldconfig -r | grep -q -e "-l$$lib"; then \

I think the /sbin references in bsd.kmod.mk could go away.
mod(un)loading is only allowed for the superuser anyway, who's
expected to have /sbin in his $path.

The absolute references in bsd.port.mk are okay.  I'm not sure about
the mtree command, the remaining commands must be executable for
regular users, too.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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