Date: Wed, 1 Feb 1995 11:43:26 +0300 From: "Andrew A. Chernov, Black Mage" <ache@astral.msk.su> To: CVS-commiters@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-usrbin@freefall.cdrom.com, Bill Paul <wpaul@freefall.cdrom.com> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/passwd Makefile Message-ID: <JDkcqBlOj2@astral.msk.su> In-Reply-To: <199502010555.VAA23181@freefall.cdrom.com>; from Bill Paul at Tue, 31 Jan 1995 21:55:21 -0800 References: <199502010555.VAA23181@freefall.cdrom.com>
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In message <199502010555.VAA23181@freefall.cdrom.com> Bill Paul writes:
>wpaul 95/01/31 21:55:20
> Modified: usr.bin/passwd Makefile
> Log:
> Changed passwd/yppasswd's Makefile to create all symbolic links instead
> of hard links: since passwd is installed immutable, an attempt to make
> a hard link to it during a 'make install' would fail. I didn't notice
> this conflict because my /usr directory is an NFS filesystem mounted from a
> SunOS server, so the special file mode flags had no effecti when I tested
> everything on my machine. Live and learn.
I think, this way can conflict with eBones passwd which installed
as /usr/bin/passwd too. Symbolic link of yppasswd will point
to eBones passwd which can't YP.
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