Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 15:49:54 -0500 (EST) From: Kelly Yancey <kbyanc@posi.net> To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ** HEADS UP ** chown&chgrp moved again Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10001111547290.11315-100000@kronos.alcnet.com> In-Reply-To: <20000107082513.A96136@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, David O'Brien wrote: > This is a heads up to let you know that you need to > > rm -f /sbin/chwon /bin/chgrp > > after your next `make world'. Additionally you need to install a new > /dev/MAKEDEV (mergmaster(8) will assist you in this). > > A while back I moved the install location for chown and chgrp from > /usr/sbin and /usr/bin to /sbin and /bin. This was because of > MAKEDEV(8)'s dependence on them, and thus forced /usr to be mounted for > correct operation of MAKEDEV(8). Of course that is bad since you could > easily be trying to create the device node to even mount /usr. > > This week, I have added chown-like functionality to mknod(8) and restored > chown & chgrp back to their previous locations. MAKEDEV has been > updated to use the new functionality of mknod(8). > > However, do to this moving around of chown & chgrp's install location, > you may easily have stale versions in /sbin and /bin. > > -- > -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) > > David, I just noticed that this note in 4.0's RELNOTES about the relocation doesn't appear applicable anymore: `chown' has moved from "/usr/sbin" to "/sbin". This is due to dependencies on it by `MAKEDEV'. Please update any scripts that have "/usr/sbin" hardcoded in them. Since `chgrp' is a link to `chown', `chgrp' has moved from "/usr/bin" to "/bin" to reside on the same partition. Kelly -- Kelly Yancey - kbyanc@posi.net - Richmond, VA Analyst / E-business Development, Bell Industries http://www.bellind.com/ Maintainer, BSD Driver Database http://www.posi.net/freebsd/drivers/ Coordinator, Team FreeBSD http://www.posi.net/freebsd/Team-FreeBSD/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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