Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 14:40:09 -0400 From: Michael Powell <nightrecon@verizon.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to move vi to /bin Message-ID: <gukcrb$vqf$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <cb0fa7b70905130021t390bb560r4a1dd64ab3b2e79@mail.gmail.com> <200905142019.56242.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> <4A0D0FD6.4040107@gmail.com>
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Manish Jain wrote: > Mel Flynn wrote: >> On Wednesday 13 May 2009 09:21:46 manish jain wrote: >> >>> I want to move vi to /bin so that I have an editor available in >>> single-user mode. [snip] > > From all the discussion I have walked through on the issue of where to > place vi, it does appear FreeBSD has a skewed policy on the issue. There > are plenty of reasons you might need access an editor in single-user > mode - editing fstab is just one. Having to use the workarounds > suggested in place of vi is not so good, and manually moving vi to /bin > is not simply a matter of 'mv /usr/bin/vi /bin/'. > > One of the things I would dearly like to see in a future release is vi > being placed under /bin. > Why not just simply type /rescue/vi at the prompt? It'll function in single user mode and allow for things like editing fstab, etc. So simple, why complicate matters... -Mike
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