Date: Wed, 7 Jun 1995 13:29:52 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> To: kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu (Steven G. Kargl) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: chgrp in /sbin? Message-ID: <199506072029.NAA03212@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199506072018.NAA00197@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> from "Steven G. Kargl" at Jun 7, 95 01:18:52 pm
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> > Guys, > > I just had a nice surprise. I built a custom kernel and rebooted > to find that /dev/sd0s2[a-h] and /dev/sd1s1[a-h] were missing. (How > these got deleted is a short story for another post maybe.) This > drops you into single-user mode when the mount of the various > partitions fail. No problem. > > #cd /dev > #PATH=/bin:/sbin:/stand > #EXPORT PATH > #sh MAKEDEV sd0s2a > chgrp not found > > Question: shouldn't chgrp reside with chown and chmod in /stand or /sbin > or /bin? > > Yes, chgrp is in /usr/bin, but if you can't mount /usr then it is obviously > useless. This is part of a long standing evaluation of what belongs in the root partition and what belongs in usr. You could always mknod the thing by hand, fix up your stuff, mount /usr and then run MAKEDEV to fix this, so IMHO, chgrp/chown does not belong in /. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD
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