please disregard my previous post, i did a little more looking into the /sbin directory (it is supposed to be a directory) and somehow i managed to frag it during one of the earlier installations. i have decided to scrap my lfs installation and start over from scratch rather than try to figure out a way to rebuild it since i am sure this will be the most efficient way of going about recovering it.
thank you anyway. On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 3:20 PM, not spam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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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