We need to clean it up... at some point.

however, amd64/* binaries required for 64-bit operation, we need them

On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 15:08 -0500, Maurice Volaski wrote:
> I figured out part of the reason for the misbehavior described below 
> is that the "native" shutdown command is the "wrong" binary or at 
> least it's a buggy version of the "right" binary. That is, there are 
> multiple shutdown commands on the system. The "correct" shutdown 
> command is actually /usr/ucb/shutdown whereas simply executing 
> "shutdown" executes /usr/sbin/shutdown.
> 
> In fact, there are whole directories of duplicated commands. For 
> example, try "ps". This will execute /usr/bin/ps, but that's not the 
> same as the command in /usr/ucb/i86/ps. There are actually five ps 
> commands! The duplicated commands are in /usr/ucb and in the 
> subdirectories of /usr/ucb/i86 and /usr/ucb/amd64. Not all the 
> commands are duplicated. Some are symlinks to commands in the normal 
> (i.e., Linux) locations.
> 
> I'm assuming this situation results from the addition of the GNU 
> application userland, but that it is resulting in confusion.
> 
> 
> >The shutdown command doesn't seem to work. I get a complaint from RPC
> >
> >RPC: Program not registered.
> >
> >Then it apparently su's to root, switches to single user mode. If I
> >then try again to shutdown, I get a different complaint from RPC
> >
> >RPC: Rpcbind failure -- RPC: Unable to receive
> >
> >and the command eventually seems to give up.
> 

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