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From: gowen@presto.cs.tufts.edu (Gregory Owen)
Subject: Re: Taylor UUCP on FreeBSD???
In-Reply-To: kjetilho@ifi.uio.no's message of 21 Jun 1994 16:18:58 GMT
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>>>>> "Kjetil" == Kjetil Torgrim Homme <kjetilho@ifi.uio.no> writes:
> +--- Greg Owen:
> | And on machines with dynamic libs, /bin/sh should be statically
> | linked, etc. etc.
>
> Why is that? The chances for /lib/libc.so or /bin/sh getting hosed are
> pretty similar...
Sorry, SunOS bias, where /lib is a symbolic link to /usr/lib.
You get so used to assuming the worst that you forget to qualify...
> It's more important to make sure that you can boot without the
> installed root-partition (botting from a floppy or over the net...)
Agreed. Which is why administering a broken Linux machine is
so much easier than administering a broken diskfull Sun...
Greg Owen { gowen@cs.tufts.edu,@xis.xerox.com } http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~gowen/
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"Dayadhvam: I have heard the key/Turn in the door and turn once only/We think
of the key, each in his prison/Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison..."