Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 11:14:17 -0700 (PDT) From: papowell@astart.com To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: bin/13156: /usr/src/usr.bin/chown should be /usr/src/bin/chown Message-ID: <19990815181417.490BF14E3B@hub.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 13156 >Category: bin >Synopsis: /usr/src/usr.bin/chown should be /usr/src/bin/chown >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: change-request >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sun Aug 15 11:20:01 PDT 1999 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Patrick Powell >Release: 3.2-Release, also 4-current >Organization: Astart Technologies >Environment: See above >Description: chown is used by /dev/MAKEDEV, and is needed to create devices. If you are trying to recover from a failed disk or install a new disk and chown is not available in /bin or /sbin you cannot create the necessary device nodes. Note that mknod is in /sbin, chmod is in /bin, but chown is in /usr/bin which is a very odd place for it. It should probably be in /sbin or /bin Patrick Powell (Note: I am surprised this has not become more visible) >How-To-Repeat: Ummm... crash your system, and have only root available, do: mount -u / cd /dev MAKEDEV sd0 and see the error messages >Fix: mv /usr/src/usr.bin/chown /usr/src/sbin/ Update Distribution, fling it to the winds, update change log. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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