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Date:      Fri, 7 Jan 2000 08:25:13 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   ** HEADS UP **  chown&chgrp moved again
Message-ID:  <20000107082513.A96136@dragon.nuxi.com>

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This is a heads up to let you know that you need to 

    rm -f /sbin/chwon /bin/chgrp

after your next `make world'.  Additionally you need to install a new
/dev/MAKEDEV (mergmaster(8) will assist you in this).

A while back I moved the install location for chown and chgrp from
/usr/sbin and /usr/bin to /sbin and /bin.  This was because of
MAKEDEV(8)'s dependence on them, and thus forced /usr to be mounted for
correct operation of MAKEDEV(8).  Of course that is bad since you could
easily be trying to create the device node to even mount /usr.

This week, I have added chown-like functionality to mknod(8) and restored
chown & chgrp back to their previous locations.   MAKEDEV has been
updated to use the new functionality of mknod(8).

However, do to this moving around of chown & chgrp's install location,
you may easily have stale versions in /sbin and /bin.

-- 
-- David    (obrien@NUXI.com)


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