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From: gi101@cus.cam.ac.uk (G. Ioannou)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: /stand directory?
Date: 19 Sep 1995 19:33:15 GMT
Organization: University of Cambridge, England
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Message-ID: <43n5tr$sua@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>
References: <DE1BG0.9Eu@iquest.net> <41um6g$1tb@gate.sinica.edu.tw> <1995Sep7.224247.28092@state.systems.sa.gov.au> <43cls2$54k@pixar.com>
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Summary: What is the /stand directory?
Keywords: stand single user
In article <43cls2$54k@pixar.com>, Mark VandeWettering <markv@pixar.com> wrote:
>In article <1995Sep7.224247.28092@state.systems.sa.gov.au>,
> <chdemgt@state.systems.sa.gov.au> wrote:
>>In article <41um6g$1tb@gate.sinica.edu.tw>, taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao) writes:
>>> In article <DE1BG0.9Eu@iquest.net>, David Anderson <partek@indecent.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>> Might I also add that FreeBSD is an excellent choice for an ISP. :)
>>>
>>>>3- Does FreeBSD have any ways of doing "distaster recovery"? Like I
>>>> commonly, while playing with the kernel or a critical bootup file,
>>>> leave Linux unbootable, and have to use my install disks to fix things.
>>>
>>> Never did FreeBSD ever leave me in a state where I had to boot
>>> from a floppy, so your point is moot. ;-) When installing kernels,
>>
>>It is far from moot, but your failure to answer is eloquent. If you
>>had a corrupted sh and csh in /bin, and you had deleted or forgotten
>>about /stand, you would be in a lot of trouble. The system would
^^^^^^
>>boot into single user mode, prompt you for a shell and you would be
>>unable to a thing.
>
>Um, yes, that is true, but the point is that FreeBSD doesn't generally
>have problems such that /bin/sh and /bin/csh become corrupted.
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What exactly is the purpose of a /stand directory? I know it
contains binaries to be used in a stand-alone environment, but
what does that mean practically? Also, don't these binaries
already exist elsewhere on the filesystem?
(Sorry for quoting all of that, which is largely irrelevant to my
question, but I couldn't disentangle who wrote what, so I left it
as it was (my news server has expired the original articles)).
-George.