I am attempting to install the blfs shadow package as required after installing cracklib and linux-pam in the blfs book, i have followed the blfs book to the letter up to this point with the exception of installing the autofs package and compressing the man pages. everything goes fine up until i run the make install command, it errors out with the message:
test -z "/sbin" || mkdir -o -- "/sbin" mkdir: cannot create directory '/sbin': file exists my first thought was that i had made a mistake in the sed substitutions or other commands that must be run before the make command, so i tried deleting the source directory and starting over with no luck, i also tried re-downloading the source tarball from a a different ftp (the one i used for the lfs installation) and still had the same problem. i verified that there is a file called /sbin however when i attempt to view it's contents i'm told that it may be a binary file, i had expected it to be a directory but i'm still fairly new to linux so i may be wrong.
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