From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 15 01:10:28 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id BAA29501 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 15 Jun 1995 01:10:28 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id BAA29468 for ; Thu, 15 Jun 1995 01:10:03 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA03607; Thu, 15 Jun 1995 09:52:02 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA13542; Thu, 15 Jun 1995 09:51:32 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id JAA00379; Thu, 15 Jun 1995 09:45:10 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199506150745.JAA00379@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: bin/514: mt & chflags must be static and/or in /bin To: root@totum.muc.de Date: Thu, 15 Jun 1995 09:45:10 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) In-Reply-To: <199506150020.RAA08157@freefall.cdrom.com> from "root@totum.muc.de" at Jun 14, 95 05:20:04 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 871 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk [Discussion moved to -hackers] As root@totum.muc.de wrote: > > The mt is independent of the chflags problem. > o I could not wind tho the 2'nd backup on the Tape (the /usr backup) > 'cause of the shared mt. You didn't learn your Unix lessons very well. :-) What about cat /dev/nrst0 > /dev/null ? :-) Anyway, after merging the old st(8) functionality into mt(1), there are other reasons now to put mt(1) into the set of ``emergency recovery tools''. You can use it now to setup the parameters of a SCSI drive, and _this_ will be a showstopper if you need it and don't have it. /sbin is the wrong place. The command is a user command, and used to live under /usr/bin, so we should move it to /bin. Other opinions? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)