| > >     There's not much point statically linking mt if it's sitting in
| > >     /usr/bin.  On the face of it it does seem a good candidate to move
| > >     to /bin.
| > 
| > Given that having things move around in the base system carries with it
| > varying degrees of pain, can you guys just explain why this is actually
| > necessary?  Didn't someone point out a way to use restore in the absence
| > of mt?
| 
| Yes, that was me. But maybe they're /usr that they want to restore isn't in
| dump(8) format. I dunno- this is why I asked. It seems to me on the face of it
| a reasonable thing to have- basic device manipulation available w/o /usr. But
| there's no particular end to the number of things you *could* want to be
| availble if someone takes a Mossberger to your /usr. So, I'm of two minds
| about this.

Instead of going through pains of moving everything around, why not build
a static mt on the rescue disk only?  

-- 
Dan Moschuk ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
"Don't get even -- get odd!"


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