Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 09:30:36 +0100 From: Chris Rees <utisoft@googlemail.com> To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Cc: manish jain <invalid.pointer@gmail.com> Subject: Re: How to move vi to /bin Message-ID: <b79ecaef0905130130o10d593cdm3fb60b6175112d67@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090513082716.GB1363@joni.subvert.org.uk> References: <cb0fa7b70905130021t390bb560r4a1dd64ab3b2e79@mail.gmail.com> <20090513082716.GB1363@joni.subvert.org.uk>
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> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 12:51:46PM +0530, manish jain wrote: >> I want to move vi to /bin so that I have an editor available in >> single-user mode. This sounds simple (and should be if all you have is >> a single partition), but there are problems. For starters, terminfo >> can't locate its database in single-user mode. >> >> Could anyone please tell me how to go about this on a 7.x system ? I >> am also curious to know why FreeBSD doesn't place vi under /bin in the >> first place. You may also have a problem, because IIRC /usr/bin/vi is dynamically linked with stuff in /usr/lib. Try it, it may work. It's probably why it's in /usr/bin. Or just use /rescue/vi as Andrew suggested! Chris -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
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