John Martinez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> >
> > This does not help ud /usr is not mounted in single user emergency  
> > mode.
> >
> > /bin is a symlink to /usr/bin and when /usr is not mounted, then
> > there is no /bin/ksh -> the bourne shell dies from the exec above.
> >
> >
>
> In high end server environments, particularly those that run Veritas  
> Volume Manager, /usr should be part of /.

What "should be done" does not matter.

Having /usr in a separate partition is an officially supported install
mode on Solaris. Thus giving the advise to include something like

exec /usr/bin/anything 

into /.profile is a bad advise.

Jörg

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