Re: Speaking of moving files (Re: make world broken building fortunes )

[Wilko Bulte]

On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 10:32:23AM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :> 
> :> > So how about /usr/sbin/chown -> /sbin/chown so that MAKEDEV works with
> :> > just the root file system mounted?   
> :> 
> :> As one who just got his ass bitten by this, I would vote yes.
> :
> :As one who's missed chown at times when only root's mounted, I'm with Bill.
> :
> :--
> : Ben Rosengart
> :
> :UNIX Systems Engineer, Skunk Group
> :StarMedia Network, Inc.
> 
>     I think at one time or another all of us have missed *something* in
>     /usr that wasn't in /.  For example, disklabel -e doesn't work without
>     vi -- which is in /usr.

Bad example:

yedi#EDITOR=ed disklabel -re da0
831
1,$p
# /dev/rda0c:
type: SCSI
disk: da0s2
label: 
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 63
tracks/cylinder: 255
sectors/cylinder: 16065

[etc]

yedi#type ed
ed is /bin/ed
yedi#

8)

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Wilko Bulte             Arnhem, The Netherlands   - The FreeBSD Project 
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