From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Sep 5 18:36:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from gizmo.internode.com.au (gizmo.internode.com.au [192.83.231.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58F4314E66 for ; Sun, 5 Sep 1999 18:36:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from newton@gizmo.internode.com.au) Received: (from newton@localhost) by gizmo.internode.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA13139; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 11:05:36 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from newton) From: Mark Newton Message-Id: <199909060135.LAA13139@gizmo.internode.com.au> Subject: Re: placement of vi in the filesystem To: ben@skunk.org (Ben Rosengart) Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 11:05:36 +0930 (CST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Ben Rosengart" at Sep 5, 99 08:43:38 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ben Rosengart wrote: > I'm sure this is old ground, but could anyone please tell me why vi is > in /usr/bin instead of /bin? It would be nice to be able to edit files > in /etc (especially the fstab) without /usr mounted on a vanilla install. /bin/ed - mark ---- Mark Newton Email: newton@internode.com.au (W) Network Engineer Email: newton@atdot.dotat.org (H) Internode Systems Pty Ltd Desk: +61-8-82232999 "Network Man" - Anagram of "Mark Newton" Mobile: +61-416-202-223 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message